Audio only

This Particular Happiness

A Childless Love StoryBy Jackie Shannon HollisRecorded Track
Length7h 27m

About this audiobook

As a farm girl in eastern Oregon, feeding bottles to bummer lambs and babysitting her little sister, Jackie Shannon Hollis expected to become a mother someday. After a series of failed relationships, she met Bill, the man she wanted to spend her life with. But he was a man who never wanted children. Saying I do meant saying I don’t to a rite of passage her body had prepared her for since puberty. Told in short nonlinear chapters, This Particular Happiness explores the fracturing of female identity as Shannon Hollis questions her childless decision, navigates her roles as daughter and wife and sister and friend, and ultimately learns to listen to her own heart. This debut memoir is about what we keep and what we abandon to make space in our lives for love.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.2 (433)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 30, 2019
LanguageEnglish
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (385)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h4.6 (1.5K)$8 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
Just as I AmCicely Tyson16h 8m4.6 (99K)$33 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
My Bondage and My Freedom (Annotated)Frederick Douglass15h 30m4.6 (2.4K)$2 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m4.6 (4.9K)$26 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00

You may also like

The Book of BeginningsSally Page10h 35m4.1 (26.7K)$25
Only Here, Only NowTom Newlands11h4.0 (3.1K)$29 · $0.00
True (. . . Sort Of)Katherine Hannigan6h 44m4.2 (5.5K)$24 · $0.00
Little Miss DiagnosedErin Nance, MD6h 57m4.4 (384)$24 · $0.00
Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmKate Douglas Wiggin8h 15m4.0 (39.5K)$20
The Lost GirlD. H. Lawrence15h 45m3.6 (2K)$2.30
Little Women - Unabridged with the original illustrations by Frank T. Merrill (200 illustrations)Louisa May Alcott21h 45m4.4 (1.2K)$1 · $0.00
This Boy We MadeTaylor Harris8h 25m4.3 (2.8K)$20 · $0.00
Punch Me Up To The GodsBrian Broome, Yona Harvey7h 21m4.3 (8.4K)$24 · $0.00
Panorama CityAntoine Wilson8h 1m3.7 (1.1K)$20 · $0.00
Tomorrow About This TimeGrace Livingston Hill10h 42m4.2 (764)$2 · $0.00
Challenge Accepted!: The hilarious bestselling memoir and guide to life from the Australian comedy sensation, for fans of Toni Lodge and Tina FeyCeleste Barber6h 2m4.1 (9.2K)$24 · $0.00
Darling DaysiO Tillett Wright10h 45m4.3 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
The Blessing of a B MinusWendy Mogel PhD8h 18m4.3 (1.7K)$17 · $0.00
New Happy Place, ARuth Hanna9h 16m4.4 (889)$12 · $0.00
Jack and Jill (Children's Classic) (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott11h 34m4.0 (9.3K)$2 · $0.00
Agnes GreyAnne Brontë6h 58m3.9 (118.9K)$23 · $0.00
Dancing on the EdgeRuss Tamblyn12h 26m4.2 (285)$25
Miss Devereux, SpinsterAgnes Giberne13h 39m$2.40
The Altar StepsCompton MacKenzie11h 35m3.5 (24)$2 · $0.00