Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    If You Left
    If You Left
    If You Left
    Audiobook8 hours

    If You Left

    Written by Ashley Prentice Norton

    Narrated by Christina Delaine

    3/5

    ()

    About this audiobook


    For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between extreme depressive and manic states, and Oliver has been the steady hand that guided her to safety. This summer, Althea decides that she will be different from here on. She will be the loving, sexy wife Oliver wants, and the reliable, affectionate mother their nine-year-old daughter Clem deserves. Her plan: to bring Clem to their Easthampton home once school is out-with no "summer girl" to care for her this time-and become "normal."

    But Oliver is distant and controlling, and his relationship with their interior decorator seems a bit too close; Clem has learned to be self-sufficient, and getting to know her now feels like very hard work for Althea. Into this scene enters the much younger, David Foster Wallace-reading house painter, who reaches something in Althea that has been long buried.

    Fearless and darkly funny, If You Left explores the complex dance that is the bipolar marriage, and the possibility that to move forward, we might have to destroy the very things we've worked hardest to build.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781515974598
    If You Left
    Author

    Ashley Prentice Norton

    ASHLEY PRENTICE NORTON is a graduate of Exeter, Georgetown, and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her critically acclaimed first novel, The Chocolate Money, was heralded as "darkly funny . . . compulsively readable" by People. She has also written If You Left, which mirrors the same dark humor. She lives in New York with her husband and three children.

    Related to If You Left

    Related audiobooks

    Family Life For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Other Celebs Who Are Bipolar

      Apr 17, 2020

      Other Celebs Who Are Bipolar
      1 min read

    • Article

      Out Of The Darkness

      Sep 24, 2019

      She emerged from the abyss of depression and gained a completely different outlook on life in just two years. The 30-year describes herself back then as “a walking zombie”. After years of battling depression – she was diagnosed with four disorders: b

      5 min read

    • Article

      I Am A Mother

      Mar 5, 2018

      I Am A Mother
      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jul 5, 2021

      Dear C, My mind’s been on one lately, layering and repeating thoughts like a polyphonic refrain of obsession. Thankfully good writing is a mitigator: countering the feverish chorus of opinions and observations, it can quiet down what’s inside me. Goo

      4 min read

    • Article

      Losing A Pet

      Jul 9, 2020

      Losing A Pet
      1 min read

    • Article

      Schizophrenia May Start in the Womb

      Nov 28, 2017

      Schizophrenia likely begins very early in development, toward the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, new research suggests. “This disease has been mischaracterized for 4,000 years…” The finding opens up a new understanding of this devastating d

      4 min read

    • Article

      Stigma Of Mental Illness

      Oct 15, 2021

      The tragic story of the Dickasons (YOU, 30 September) brought me to tears for more reasons than the devastating loss of three little souls and the destruction of a family. It also made me cry as an adult woman suffering from mental illness. As a 48-y

      1 min read

    • Article

      It’s Been A Long Road

      Jun 3, 2021

      Jolie files for divorce after accusing Pitt of being abusive towards son Maddox on a flight. Amid police and social services investigations, Pitt is cleared of any wrongdoing. “We’ll always be a family,” Jolie says in a BBC interview. Pitt ope

      1 min read

    • Article

      Extreme Emotions

      Aug 20, 2020

      Extreme Emotions
      2 min read

    • Article

      Woman In The Mirror

      Nov 1, 2017

      Woman In The Mirror
      6 min read

    • Article

      Our Expert Responds To Readers’ Dilemmas

      Jan 13, 2020

      Q I’m a stay-at-home mom who’s been married for 10 years. My husband and I have two daughters. He travels a lot for work, so he’s hardly ever around. I feel lonely and in need of affection. When I’m stressed, I’ve got no one to talk to. A year ago, I

      3 min read

    • Article

      Crash Course

      Jun 30, 2019

      Crash Course
      6 min read

    • Article

      Complicating Our Narratives About Addiction and Illness: The Millions Interviews Amy Long

      Sep 12, 2019

      I don’t worry about opioids altering how I perceive my life since I don’t get anything but pain relief from them. I just took a pain pill, but I’m not high. The post Complicating Our Narratives About Addiction and Illness: The Millions Interviews Amy

      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘We’re Caught In Mid-air’: Raising A Child With Autism In Georgia

      May 25, 2019

      From individual therapy to special education teachers in schools, parents of children with autism in Georgia face a constant battle with the authorities to provide the services their children need.

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for If You Left

    3/5

    4 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      First off I am not knocking anyone who id dealing with a mental illness like Althea in this book. In fact, I thought that she was the only interesting person in this book. The rest fell flat as did the story for me. At first I was intrigued by the story but after the first couple of chapters my excitement quickly went away and I found it harder to read this book. I got almost half way and put the book down. From what I did read however if I had been more engaged in the rest of the characters in this book than I actually may have stuck with it. I would be willing to give this author another chance in the future.