Share Fair Isle: The Geography of Bliss

By Ed Reif
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Length2h 34m

About this audiobook

When the world shut down in 2020, Ed Reif, nurse Sarah Kennedy, and their Scottish Terrier, Skyelark MacDoglet, took an unlikely route out of ordinary life: to Fair Isle, one of Britain’s most remote inhabited islands. There, amid North Atlantic storms, puffins, sheep, and a close-knit community, Sarah found purpose in island nursing, Ed learned to measure wealth in time rather than money, and Skyelark discovered a landscape that seemed made for her. Told across 24 chapters, Share Fair Isle: The Geography of Bliss follows their journey from pandemic uncertainty to a life of service, belonging, and discovery—and beyond the island to the next chapter of their lives. Part travel memoir, part love letter to a remarkable place, and part reflection on Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, it asks a simple question: What if bliss is not a destination, but a way of paying attention to the life you already have?

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.1 (23)
Includes Amazon
GenreBiography and Memoir, Health and Wellness
Length2 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
2Foreword — The Dog Who Already Knew
3Chapter One: The World Goes Quiet
4Chapter Two: The Door on the Screen
5Chapter Three: No Crate Required
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6Chapter Four: Fair Isle Frequencies
7Chapter Five: Puffin Patrol
8Chapter Six: Deputy Sheep Warden
9Chapter Seven: The Island Nurse
10Chapter Eight: Born to Herd
11Chapter Nine: Carlos
12Chapter Ten: The Holy North Atlantic Mackerel
13Chapter Eleven: Frozen in Time
14Chapter Twelve: The Rules of the Edge
15Chapter Thirteen: Borderless
16Chapter Fourteen: The Rock and the Queen
17Chapter Fifteen: Stories Walk Off the Screen
18Chapter Sixteen: Time Millionaires at the End of the World
19Chapter Seventeen: Migration Mode
20Chapter Eighteen: The Geography of Bliss
21Chapter Nineteen: Three Generations at the Edge of Britain
22Chapter Twenty: Only Photographs Tell the Truth
23Chapter Twenty-One: What the Island Taught Us
24Chapter Twenty-Two: The Eternal Return
25Chapter Twenty-Three: The Geography of Bliss — A Final Account
26Chapter Twenty-Four: Fire in the Belly
27Epilogue — The Dog at the Edge of the World
28The Power of Myth

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