Something That Loved Me

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Some marriages survive by not speaking. Hers had survived for nineteen years. Ellen Cahill has been married thirty-four years, and for nineteen of them she and Tom have kept a careful, complete silence over a loss and a wound they have never once spoken aloud. They lost a son, long ago. There was a season, in the worst of it, that neither of them will name. Ellen stayed. She forgave her husband the only way she could manage, by folding the whole of it away, and she came to believe the silence was the larger love, the thing that held the house up. Then, on a cold night near their thirty-fourth anniversary, something between them gives. And in the morning the old hurt is simply not where she left it. Ellen wakes able to love her husband the way she did at the very beginning. It feels like nothing so much as grace, a healing overdue and finally arrived. But the healing asks something of everyone around her. Her sharp-tongued sister drifts out of the calendar by degrees too soft to name. Her husband's aging mother, the one person who still remembers what was done, fades quietly in the back of the house. Her grown daughter, who carries too much of the lost boy in her face, finds her mother loving her from a greater and greater distance. And Ellen, happier than she has been in thirty years, has a word for each of these departures, and the word is always kindness. Listen with the lights low. It will feel, for a while, like a love story. Duration - 2h 32m. Author - T.M. Green. Narrator - Digital Voice Marcus G. Published Date - Wednesday, 28 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 T.M. Green ©.