Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama Tommy and Grizel (1900) is J. M. Barrie's bittersweet sequel to Sentimental Tommy, following Thomas (Tommy) Sandys as he tries to turn boyhood imagination into a life worth living. Sixteen and solemn, Tommy arrives in foggy London with his devoted sister, Elspeth, and falls into the orbit of O. P. Pym, a booming, unreliable popular writer who hires the farm-bred youth as an assistant. Under Pym's chaotic mentorship, Tommy discovers both the seduction of authorship and the danger of believing his own carefully staged sentiments. Fame comes in an unexpected form, and the persona he invents begins to harden into a cage. When Tommy is drawn back toward his Scottish roots and the small-town world that first shaped his fantasies, he is forced to face Grizel, the steadfast girl he has long idealized, along with a web of friends, rivals, and memories that refuse to fit his tidy stories. Moving between sharp comedy and quiet ache, Barrie explores love that is easier to preach than to practice, the costs of ambition, and the painful work of growing up when your truest enemy is the myth you have made of yourself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:07) Chapter 02 (00:48:43) Chapter 03 (01:14:03) Chapter 04 (01:39:19) Chapter 05 (02:05:50) Chapter 06 (02:25:30) Chapter 07 (02:48:51) Chapter 08 (03:05:38) Chapter 09 (03:25:11) Chapter 10 (03:32:40) Chapter 11 (04:00:00) Chapter 12 (04:24:19) Chapter 13 (04:43:58) Chapter 14 (04:57:09) Chapter 15 (05:12:46) Chapter 16 (05:37:13) Chapter 17 (05:59:25) Chapter 18 (06:21:50) Chapter 19 (06:46:47) Chapter 20 (07:20:50) Chapter 21 (07:40:45) Chapter 22 (07:55:31) Chapter 23 (08:18:44) Chapter 24 (08:49:14) Chapter 25 (09:17:28) Chapter 26 (09:41:46) Chapter 27 (09:58:43) Chapter 28 (10:22:48) Chapter 29 (10:37:05) Chapter 30 (11:02:43) Chapter 31 (11:28:03) Chapter 32 (11:45:33) Chapter 33 (12:05:58) Chapter 34 (12:38:37) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices