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Listening Well

Bringing Stories of Hope to Life

Heather Morris

St. Martin's Press

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ISBN10: 1250276918
ISBN13: 9781250276919

Hardcover

320 Pages

$29.99

CA$39.99

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In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener—a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told in her novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the bestselling follow up, Cilka's Journey.

Now Heather shares the story behind her inspirational writing journey and the defining experiences of her life, including her profound friendship with Lale, and explores how she learned to really listen to the stories people told her—skills she believes we can all learn.

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"In a heartfelt . . . memoir, the author extols the act of listening as an expression of love and empathy . . . A celebration of human connection."Kirkus Reviews

"A thoughtful and insightful exploration."Library Journal

"In this exquisite work, novelist Morris makes an impassioned case for the value of spoken history . . . Weaving spectacular storytelling with wise advice, this underscores the beauty of slowing down in an age of distraction."Publishers Weekly

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1Listening to the Wisdom of Our Elders


Listen to your elders’ advice not because they are always right, but because they have more experiences of being wrong.

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About the author

Heather Morris

HEATHER MORRIS lives in Australia. While working in a hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the US. In 2003, Heather met a gentleman, Lale Sokolov, who ‘might have a story worth telling’. Lale entrusted the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote his story as a screenplay – before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

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