Craving that raw, unflinching grief you felt in How to End a Love Story by ? Sink into Thank You for Listening by next.
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- Audiobook industry insider POV = creative nerds rejoice
- Grief & healing done messy, real, cathartic AF
- Banter so sharp it cuts through heartache
- Second-chance romance w/ emotional scar tissue included
If you devoured the way How to End a Love Story refused to soften grief's jagged edges, Thank You for Listening will gut you just as thoroughly. Julia Whelan drops you into the audiobook industry's inner sanctum—all creative chaos and career anxiety—where two wounded professionals collide in a second-chance romance dripping with unhealed scar tissue, sharp banter that doubles as emotional armor, and the kind of messy vulnerability that makes healing feel earned, not easy.
This isn't redemption wrapped in a bow. It's two people clawing toward intimacy through humor, heartache, and the kind of insider creative nerdery that makes you feel seen.
If you need your romance to hurt before it heals, this is your next obsession.
What Readers Are Saying
"My favorite parts of the book are the ones in which Sewanee spent time with her grandmother Blah, they felt the most real to me and hit me the hardest, even bringing tears into my eyes." — Rachel L, Goodreads
"I was literally guffawing—it had a hilarious opening! A few chapters later, I was completely hooked, and as soon as Sewanee meets Nick, I was all in! I practically started drooling over it!" — Nilufer Ozmekik, Goodreads
"This book made my romance loving heart so happy! I was impressed with Whelan's debut novel, My Oxford Year, and I'm glad to say that I loved Thank You for Listening just as much." — Christy, Goodreads
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