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
2Prologue: (Untitled)
3Chapter 1: (Untitled)
4Chapter 2: (Untitled)
5Chapter 3: (Untitled)
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6Chapter 4: (Untitled)
7Chapter 5: (Untitled)
8Chapter 6: (Untitled)
9Chapter 7: (Untitled)
10Chapter 8: (Untitled)
11Chapter 9: (Untitled)
12Chapter 10: (Untitled)
13Chapter 11: (Untitled)
14Chapter 12: (Untitled)
15Chapter 13: (Untitled)
16Chapter 14: (Untitled)
17Chapter 15: (Untitled)
18Chapter 16: (Untitled)
19Chapter 17: (Untitled)
20Chapter 18: (Untitled)
21Author’s Note: (Untitled)
22Appendix A: Flora and Fauna of De Witt Island: (Untitled)
23Appendix B: Timeline of Jane’s Stay: (Untitled)
24Appendix C: Selected Journal Excerpts: (Untitled)
25References and Further Reading: (Untitled)
26Acknowledgments: (Untitled)
27Notes on the Real Island: (Untitled)
28Reader’s Discussion Guide: (Untitled)
29Educator & Book Club Brief: (Untitled)
30About the Author: (Untitled)
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