Sally Page Audiobooks

The Keeper of Stories: warm, funny fiction about the tales ordinary people carry

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

52 listener ratings

Who is Sally Page?

Everyone is carrying a story nobody has ever thought to ask about. That premise, quietly stated, is essentially what The Keeper of Stories proposes, and it explains why a novel with such a gentle surface has found the audience it has. The keeper of the title is whoever bothers to collect them.

Sally Page writes at the warm end of contemporary fiction, where humour and sadness are allowed to occupy the same paragraph and very little is resolved by dramatic event. Our catalogue files this one under comedy and humour, which catches the lightness of the prose while rather understating the substance beneath it. Ten hours is a full-length novel, and the story is given room to accumulate rather than rush.

Sally Page in audiobooks

Jessica Whittaker narrates, and fiction of this kind rests almost entirely on the voice. A novel built out of other people’s accounts needs a reader who can distinguish between them without turning any into a turn, and who lets the funny lines pass without underlining them.

Listener response has been affectionate, an average of 4.4 across a decent spread of ratings, which fits the pattern of a novel people press on friends rather than debate. For anyone new to Page, this is the entry point on our shelves.

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