Sarah Hiscox Audiobooks

The Beginning and End of Everything: a memoir that takes the widest possible view

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.7/5 average

108 listener ratings

Who is Sarah Hiscox?

The scale a memoir chooses tells you what kind of book it means to be. The Beginning and End of Everything reaches for the largest frame available, and a personal account written against a backdrop of that size is usually one in which private events are being weighed against something considerably bigger than themselves.

Sarah Hiscox is filed with us on the biography and memoir shelf without additional tags, which is unusual enough to be worth noting and suggests a work that resists tidy categorisation. Eight hours is the classic length for a life story: enough for a full arc, not so much that the narrative has to be padded out with digression.

Sarah Hiscox in audiobooks

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The listener response, though, is the standout figure in this entry. An average of 4.7 across more than a hundred ratings is a genuinely strong result, and memoirs scoring at that level tend to be the ones people finish in a rush and then recommend without qualification. It is the natural place to begin with this author on our shelves.

Come to it if you like your memoir ambitious in scope, willing to set a single life against a much wider horizon, and unafraid of the questions that arrangement raises. What we currently hold is listed below.