Read the title and you already know the shape of the book. Pru and Me is an account of a life shared, catalogued with us across arts and entertainment, travel and personal development, and delivered by Timothy West in person.
That last detail defines the listening. When an author reads their own account, the pauses stop being performance decisions and start behaving like memory. Nine hours and thirty-one minutes in that register makes for an intimate proposition rather than a grand one, closer to being told a story than being addressed by a book.
We confine ourselves to what the recording shows. Everything else belongs inside the covers.