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    Remember Me
    Remember Me
    Remember Me
    Audiobook8 hours

    Remember Me

    Written by Trezza Azzopardi

    Narrated by Corrie James

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    About this audiobook

    Seventy-two-year-old, red-haired Winnie—homeless and abandoned time and again by those she's trusted—would say she's no trouble. She is content to let the days go by, minding her own business, bothering no one. Winnie would rather not recall the past, and at her age, doesn't see much point in thinking about the future. But she is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her of her suitcase and her wig—her only material possessions.

    Winnie then embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life. Forced to take stock of how events long buried have brought her to a derelict house on the edge of nowhere, she relives the secrets of a past she had disowned.

    As she pieces together the fragments of her life, Winnie recognizes that she is no longer simply on a hunt for stolen goods. After all these years, she has not escaped from her life at all: she has been circling it, and now must come to terms with it.

    Also available as a Grove Press hardcover.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612158
    Remember Me
    Author

    Trezza Azzopardi

    Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. She is the author of The Song House, Remember Me, and The Hiding Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

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    • 4/5
      An affecting first-person story about a homeless woman. After having all her worldly belongings stolen one night, Patsy/Lillian/Winnie reconstructs her life story, which turns out to have a number of tragic surprises. I found the narration uneven and at times implausibly literate for a woman of Winnie's abilities and background. But despite its flaws, this novel scores points for giving us a perspective we don't often see and for bravely avoiding romanticizing or idealizing its protagonist.
    • 4/5
      We've all seen them - those folks who wander seemingly aimlessly with their shopping carts and black garbage bags of "treasurers". With the wizardry of fiction, Trezza Azzopardi takes us into the mind of one such person and shows us every little thing has a meaning and has a place.

      Follow along as Winnie, who has lost all of her worldly possessions (which were contained in one, small suitcase) tracks down the thief, and thus the stolen items. Relive with her memories long buried and feel the heartbreak as she relearns and recounts why each "useless" item is precious in her eyes.

      A novel not to be missed.
    • 5/5
      This is a haunting story of a woman's life. We first meet Winnie when she is in her 70s, homeless and the victim of a robbery. As she tells her life story, we learn she suffers from mild retardation and a tendency to see spirits -- making her an unreliable, but unforgettable, narrator of her life's story.I loved this book, and its examination of vulnerable people in our society.
    • 1/5
      After reading The Hiding Place I thought this book would be great, however, I can't seem to get into it. I might try again later but for now it isn't grabbing me like I thought it would.
    • 5/5
      I liked "The Hiding Place" a lot, but nothing prepared me for this quietly devasting book, possibly one of the saddest things I've ever read. Winnie's world was always small, but as each of the few people she relies on slip through her fingers, and as each tiny act of thoughtless cruelty shakes her fragile mental health, she grows more and more alone, until the world abandons her altogether and she has to make a reality from the ghosts in her head. I found this book heartbreaking and it took me weeks to stop thinking about it.
    • 5/5
      We meet the narrator, who has had many names throughout her life, as an elderly homeless woman who has determined to live only in the present, but is forced by a disturbing assault to remember her own complicated past. Her story unfolds in chapters alternately numbered (one, two, three) and titled ("sticks", "protection", "all-day breakfast"). The numbered chapters take us back in time through the narrator's childhood and gradually on to the present; the titled chapters tell her "now" story. The writing is glorious; the narrator sympathetic though surely unreliable; the suspense just intense enough as we experience each new revelation about who Lillian/ Patsy/Beauty/Winnie is and has been.
    • 4/5
      As I finished Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi, I was left with a feeling of mystery about the story’s narrator. After more than 260 pages, what did I learn about her? Even her name was a moving target – was it Patsy or Lillian or Winnie? Told by such an unreliable narrator, Remember Me is one of those books that falls together hours after completion. Azzopardi drops clues about Winnie like breadcrumbs, helping the reader find her way through Winnie’s story after much reflection.Remember Me shifts from Winnie’s past to her present life as an older woman living on the streets. She carries her green case, full of mementoes. When someone steals Winnie’s case, she takes an emotional journey through her past. We learn that Winnie was the daughter of a doting father and a mentally unstable mother. After her mother’s death, she moves in with her grandfather, and then later her great aunt. She eventually ends up at the home of a brother and sister who convince Winnie that she’s a clairvoyant. It’s this part of Winnie’s journey that offers a moment of stability for her before more heartbreak sets in. As you watch Winnie move from place to place, it’s sad to see her never have a place to call home. Everything was temporary in Winnie’s world.Remember Me is a story that should be read by those who like a story’s complexities and learning about the characters slowly. Azzopardi packs an emotional punch, once you sit back and reflect on all of the pieces she presents about her characters. Once you do, you are left with a novel about how loneliness and detachment can plague a human’s soul.
    • 4/5
      The description of this novel had all the elements I tend to love -- a shift of past & present, gradual revealing of family & life history, a little bit of mystery & some family secrets. And while I enjoyed it, it didn't grip me quite as much as I think it could've. I found myself confused a lot within the story -- & that may have just been me or might possibly have been the fact that I listened to it on audio & had more trouble distinguishing time frames & such. There are several different issues going on in this story, including some mental illness, neglect, exploitation, homelessness, a little bit of borderline paranormal, etc. I almost think the author tried to tackle too much information & wrap it up neatly in one story, but there was something unsettling there for me. However, if you'd ask me how I'd do it better, I don't know that I'd have an answer. This book reminded me in a lot of ways of Maggie O'Farrell's "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox", which I read fairly recently. I don't think this one was quite as good, but the potential is there.
    • 5/5
      A haunting novel written in prose which is part fictional biography and part mystery.. The main character, is a 72 year old homeless woman who is robbed of her case, which holds her meager collection of worldly possessions. The novel is in 3 parts. The first part of the book takes place in her head as her fragmented thoughts bounce between her earliest memories and her current state. The second and third parts of the book are a little more linear as there seems to be an omniscient voice as well as the thoughts of the main character.In clinical parlance, the main character would probably be described as "dual diagnosis" with mild mental retardation combined with mental illness. Her story is one of abandonment by principal parental figures in childhood, exploitation by others as a young woman, institutionalization, and ultimately a life of living on the streets. Through the story our character's lack of personal identity is compounded by the three distinct names given her by others, each of which she assumes in a detached way.Other reviews complain that the story bounces around in time. This is an effective device by the author to portray the fragmented thinking of the main character's troubled mind.Similar books: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon and Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
    • 5/5
      Key Porter pb 2005, hc is now very pricey, an author to watch, quite an amazing book by this new British author, read the entire book on a flight from Toronto to Edmonton with tears in my eyes