Length13h 36m
About this audiobook
The Woman Who Stayed is a haunting novel inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper, a young woman who in the 1970s vanished into southern Tasmania to live alone on remote De Witt Island.
Set among wind-lashed cliffs and dense bushland, it follows Jane’s flight from mainland life and her search for meaning in solitude. Through shifting seasons she builds shelter, befriends penguins and goats, crafts a bell from driftwood, and lays stones into a spiral of ritual and reckoning.
Yet she is not as alone as she thinks. Letters arrive, a fisherman drifts into her days, and a phantom figure, R.H., rises from mist and memory. Her journals weave in folklore, real and imagined, echoing the island’s deep-time past.
Not a survival story, but a communion with nature, the novel blurs fact and fiction, history and myth, where memory, loss, and land converge.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length13 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
16Chapter 14: (Untitled)
2Prologue: (Untitled)
17Chapter 15: (Untitled)
3Chapter 1: (Untitled)
18Chapter 16: (Untitled)
4Chapter 2: (Untitled)
19Chapter 17: (Untitled)
5Chapter 3: (Untitled)
20Chapter 18: (Untitled)
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 4: (Untitled)
21Author’s Note: (Untitled)
7Chapter 5: (Untitled)
22Appendix A: Flora and Fauna of De Witt Island: (Untitled)
8Chapter 6: (Untitled)
23Appendix B: Timeline of Jane’s Stay: (Untitled)
9Chapter 7: (Untitled)
24Appendix C: Selected Journal Excerpts: (Untitled)
10Chapter 8: (Untitled)
25References and Further Reading: (Untitled)
11Chapter 9: (Untitled)
26Acknowledgments: (Untitled)
12Chapter 10: (Untitled)
27Notes on the Real Island: (Untitled)
13Chapter 11: (Untitled)
28Reader’s Discussion Guide: (Untitled)
14Chapter 12: (Untitled)
29Educator & Book Club Brief: (Untitled)
15Chapter 13: (Untitled)
30About the Author: (Untitled)
More from Kate Triebe
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m$33 · $0.00
Their Castilian OrphanAnna Belfrage14h 45m$27
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge & Pan MichaelHenryk Sienkiewicz113h 5m$1 · $0.00
Eagles over BritainLee Jackson12h 26m$23
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery11h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Viennese DressmakerKathryn Gauci11h 46m$23 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m$33 · $0.00
Under the Light of the Italian MoonJennifer Anton12h 28m$23 · $0.00
THE COMPLETE PALLISER NOVELS (All 6 Novels in One Edition)Anthony Trollope172h 46m$2 · $0.00
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary EditionMargaret Walker15h 43m$25 · $0.00
Arch of TriumphErich Maria Remarque15h 51m$28
Serenade for NadiaZülfü Livaneli9h 9m$20
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen14h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Robert L. Stevenson (Illustrated)Robert Louis Stevenson101h 15m$1 · $0.00
Zane Grey - Ultimate Collection: 60+ Western Classics, Historical Novels & Baseball StoriesZane Grey568h 56m$1 · $0.00
Between Two WorldsUpton Sinclair31h 43m$30
Under the Java MoonHeather B. Moore12h 23m$23
FamilyJ. California Cooper4h 43m$15
Rilla of InglesideL. M. Montgomery12h 25m$2 · $0.00
The Long Knives Are CryingJoseph M. Marshall III19h 2m$32
You may also like
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic FraternityVachel Lindsay3h 57m$2.30
Touch the Top of the WorldErik Weihenmayer11h 18m$20 · $0.00
Under the Open SkiesMarkus Torgeby, Frida Torgeby2h 24m$16 · $0.00
High Tide in TucsonBarbara Kingsolver2h 48m$18 · $0.00
A Tramp's NotebookMorley Roberts$2 · $0.00
Gone BushPaul Kilgour7h 8m$24 · $0.00
Wild WordsNicole Gulotta4h 52m$20 · $0.00
Personal Reflections & MeditationsBernie S. Siegel1h 6m$13 · $0.00
Bread, Wine, ChocolateSimran Sethi11h 3m$29 · $0.00
Two Years before the MastRichard Henry Dana Jr.16h 31m$28
A Hermit's Wild Friends; or, Eighteen Years in the WoodsMason Augustus Walton5h 16m$2 · $0.00
Wave WomanVicky Heldreich Durand4h 56m$15
A Labrador Doctor and The Wreck of the Mail SteamerSir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell14h 45m$2.30
Returning LightRobert L. Harris9h 31m5 (1)$29 · $0.00
Emile & ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau54h 57m$2 · $0.00
The Sea and the JungleH. M. Tomlinson10h 42m$20
Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in AlaskaRockwell Kent5h 11m$2 · $0.00
NorthboundNaomi Arnold7h 21m$24 · $0.00
Surviving White IslandKelsey Waghorn7h 36m$29 · $0.00
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – Complete Edition: 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated)Daniel Defoe40h 11m$2 · $0.00