Sipsworth

An older woman returns to her small English hometown after living abroad in Australia for more than half her life. Since the deaths of Helen Cartwright’s husband and of her son, all she has wanted to do is retreat to her childhood home in Westminster Crescent and die in peace and quiet. No fuss is needed; everyone she has ever loved is gone, and no one would mourn her passing. She leads an unhurried life as she waits for death with quiet resolve. But after Helen sees her neighbor throwing out some unusual trash, she finds objects that remind her of her own past. More than that, however, she discovers an unusual reason to live—a mouse, whom she dubs Sipsworth after he accepts a drink from her upturned bottle cap. A tender story of loss, discovery, grief, and hope, luminously narrated by Christine Rendel in a manner that will sweep listeners up.