Listening Well: Bringing Stories of Hope to Life

From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others.

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.

Stories are what connect us and remind us that hope is always possible.--Heather Morris

Author: Heather Morris
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.68w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250276919

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 24
Library Journal 06/01/2022 pg. 155
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 06/13/2022

About the Author
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.