The Clumsiest Line

By: JJY Smith

Narrated by: Tanya O'Sullivan

A witty and moving debut novel about love, loss and the secrets we keep.

Nigel Miller is a man tethered to routine and order, whose structured life is quietly and methodically dismantled when his wife Renée unexpectedly passes away outside the Co-Op.

The shock prompts a chain of events that will also unravel the lives of his three children Wilfried, Lo and Robin emerging into young adulthood and leave them free them to explore their own peculiar searches for love separately on different sides of the world.

Quirky and tender, The Clumsiest Line follows their winding journeys with none of them what their destination will look like.

©2025 JJY Smith (P)2025 JJY Smith

An unexpected dive into the human condition among three siblings

Without much fanfare, a father dies and we become a fly on the wall for each of his three adult children as they make their way into the world. One is a loner and socially awkward. One is a struggling artist. One is close to becoming a successful sportscaster. With elegant attention to detail and authentic dialogue, the listener is presented with the rare opportunity to get up close and personal with each one's daily activities, comforts, annoyances, and interactions with work colleagues and friends. We get to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell as these characters in a moving and emotive choreography. Narration by Tanya O'Sullivan captures all the subtle nuances of their speech, upbringing, beliefs, and frustrations. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 2.0x.]