The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

Author: Catherine Walsh Listening Length: 9h 45m
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Katie Collins has barely ever left her tiny Irish village of Ennisbawn. Why would she? With its tightknit community, friendly local pub, surrounded by glistening lakes and perfectly mysterious forests, it’s a place of peaceful beauty. Or it was peaceful. Until Callum Dempsey turned up. Part of a hot-shot (and, Katie h...

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I wake at precisely three minutes past seven to the sound of the world exploding.

I know the time exactly because that’s what my grandmother’s old alarm clock tells me when my eyes snap open.

I know the world is exploding because surely there is nothing else in the history of mankind that could make such a blaring, deafening noise, especially at three minutes past seven in the goddamn morning.

For a few moments, I simply lie there, my heart racing as the beeping of a reversing vehicle joins the racket, followed by another bang, one that shudders through the house until I swear the bed vibrates with it.