Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Resilience
Jessie Close & Pete Earley · 2015
🎙 Narrated by Jessie Close, with Glenn Close reading her own vignettes
80/100
👍 Worth It
Jessie Close writes with raw honesty about fifty years of misdiagnosed bipolar disorder and addiction, and having Glenn Close narrate her own vignettes gives you a genuinely rare outside-in view of a family in crisis. It's heavy — addiction, psychiatric emergencies, family trauma — so go in ready for a hard listen, not a light one. The dual-sister narration is what makes this audiobook special; it's worth it if you can carry the weight.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: mature subject matter: addiction, psychiatric crisis, family trauma — adult listeners only, not for younger family audiences. We still scored it 80; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Dual narration by both sisters — Jessie's first-person account plus Glenn Close's outside-perspective vignettes — gives the audio an intimate, layered quality reviewers single out.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing82
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers82
Age-fit55
Human-eye read88
Penny’s verdict80
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