Length36m
About this audiobook
My Still Life - On a stretch of Hartlepool coast that nobody photographs, a painter sets up his easel and a fisherman sits out on the water, and neither of them is really there for the view.
Over one bank holiday weekend a woman goes into the sea, and two lonely men are pulled into her orbit. What follows is small: chips eaten in a doorway, a brass band on the quay, a towel that never gets returned, daffodils bought on a Monday morning.
Set in a town the sea has worked on for a century, My Still Life is a short novel about loneliness that's become a habit, the company we settle for, and how much can turn on three ordinary days.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART ONE — SATURDAY
7THE TOWN
2THE SAND
8THE TIDE
3THE WATER
9PART THREE — MONDAY
4THE FIRE
10THE DAFFODILS
5PART TWO — SATURDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY MORNING
11THE STREET
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6THE TUNNEL
12THE CORNER
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