The marriage

audiobook

The marriage

by Ann Bannon

EN·~5 hours·19 chapters

Chapters

19 total

1

9:33

2

12:41

3

7:04

4

14:18

5

20:10

6

11:08

7

16:53

8

9:55

9

19:27

10

20:29
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Description

Jack Mann is winding down a quiet summer evening at home, his daughter’s hair tucked neatly away and his wife Laura humming nearby. A terse, unfamiliar phone call mentions his old college roommate Page Pringle and his estranged wife Sunny, who have just returned from a California honeymoon—raising more questions than answers. Intrigued and uneasy, Jack and Laura decide to meet the caller, a man named Winkler who claims he’s been looking into the Pringles’ tangled past.

The story gently unfolds around the Manns’ steady domestic rhythm, contrasting it with the volatile, almost mythic marriage of Page and Sunny that Jack remembers with both admiration and disbelief. As the couple navigates the mystery, the narrative explores friendship, loyalty, and the fragile balance of love when secrets begin to surface. Listeners are drawn into a warm, contemporary portrait of marriage that subtly hints at hidden complexities yet to be revealed.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (333K characters)

Release date

May 29, 2026

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Ann Bannon

Ann Bannon

b. 1932

Best known for the groundbreaking Beebo Brinker Chronicles, these mid-century paperback novels helped give lesbian readers stories they could finally recognize as their own. Written in the 1950s and early 1960s, the books went on to become lasting classics of queer literature.

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