Follow Your Heart

By: Susanna Tamaro

Narrated by: Joan Plowright

Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving everything that has happened to her, she seeks to remind her granddaughter that the one worthwhile journey in life is to the centre of oneself, in search of that original voice we all guard deep inside.© Baldini & Castoldi, Milano Translation by Avil Bardoni; (P) Random House

Enjoyable,

Surprised to find out the author was younger than I would have thought. Perfect choice of narrator for the material.

Well if I wasn't depressed before...

This book is sad. Or I am currently sad and this made it worse. it's a great story, beautifully written...but sad.