Everybody's Fool

· Bolinda · Narrated by Mark Bramhall
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Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years; the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends; and Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident. Bath’s mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing. Then there’s Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there’s Charice Bond –a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer’s office – as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you can't help but love, Everybody's Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.
Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s...

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Richard Russo is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Somebody’s Fool, Chances Are..., Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories including The Whore's Child; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine for Everybody’s Fool. Russo lives in Portland, Maine and his latest novel is Under the Falls (2026).

Mark Bramhall's extensive theatre work in Los Angeles and New York include performances in Our Town, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies and The Winter's Tale. He holds numerous honours for his narrations and has repeatedly been featured among AudioFile Magazine’s best readers of the year. Mark has had recurring television roles on Alias, That '70s Show and Days of Our Lives. His other television and film credits include 24, ER, Vanilla Sky and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.

Richard Russo is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Somebody’s Fool, Chances Are..., Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories including The Whore's Child; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, wh...

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