Is there an audiobook of The Things We Leave Unfinished?

Yes. The Things We Leave Unfinished has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Tim Paige and Carly Robins.

How long is the The Things We Leave Unfinished audiobook?

The The Things We Leave Unfinished audiobook runs 14 hr 32 min.

Is The Things We Leave Unfinished on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. The Things We Leave Unfinished was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 22, 2026.

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Our score

4.7/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDFebruary 2021

Genres

Fiction Women's Fiction Contemporary

Themes

Family secrets and what gets erased across generationsGrief as the slow return to feelingWartime choices carried silently for decadesInheritance as both burden and gift

The Things We Leave Unfinished

Name: The Things We Leave Unfinished
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros pairs a woman rebuilding her life at her late great-grandmother's Colorado estate with the manuscript of that great-grandmother's unfinished, scandalous novel, and lets both stories unravel at once.

The Review

Our take

Georgia Stanton arrives at Cross Creek with nothing left to prove and nothing left to lose, which sounds like the setup for a quiet inheritance story until you realize how much Yarros packs into the words "nothing left." She's twenty-eight, freshly divorced, stripped of the New York life she built and the friends who came with it, and the estate she's inherited from her great-grandmother Scarlett comes with a catch: a ghostwriter, Noah Harrison, already installed to finish the novel Scarlett left incomplete when she died.

That setup could have been a straightforward workplace-adjacent romance, prickly writer and reluctant heiress circling each other over a manuscript. Yarros does write that story, and it works, Noah's charm landing exactly where it should and the tension between him and Georgia earning its slow build. But the real engine of the book is Scarlett's own story, told in alternating chapters set decades earlier, about a love affair during wartime that the family has spent generations trying to erase. Georgia isn't just falling for Noah. She's reading her way into a version of her family that nobody ever told her, and the two timelines start talking to each other in ways that reframe what each one means.

Yarros writes grief and desire with the same unguarded intensity, which is part of why this book lands harder than its rom-com framing might suggest. Georgia's numbness after her divorce isn't decorative backstory; it's the actual texture of the first third of the book, rendered patiently enough that her slow return to feeling something carries weight. Scarlett's chapters, meanwhile, deal in real historical stakes, the kind of choices that get made in wartime and then carried silently for the rest of a life.

Why you should read

Fans of dual-timeline family sagas
Readers who want wartime secrets tangled with present-day romance
Anyone who liked The Alice Network or The Nightingale
Readers drawn to grief-to-healing arcs alongside a slow-burn love story

What to expect

Two alternating timelines, present-day and wartime
A slow-burn romance layered over a family mystery
Genuine grief and emotional rawness, not just swoon
A few reveals that telegraph slightly ahead of the characters

The dual-timeline structure asks a lot of the reader's attention, and a few of the historical reveals arrive with more momentum than subtlety, telegraphed a chapter or two before the characters catch up. That's a minor cost against what the structure buys: an ending that pays off both stories at once, tying a decades-old secret to a present-day choice about what Georgia is willing to risk for love the second time around. Readers who came for the romance will get one. What they'll leave with is a novel about the stories families bury and what it costs the next generation to dig them back up.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.7/ 5

Outstanding

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of The Things We Leave Unfinished?: Yes. The Things We Leave Unfinished has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Tim Paige and Carly Robins.
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How long is the The Things We Leave Unfinished audiobook?: The The Things We Leave Unfinished audiobook runs 14 hr 32 min.
Is The Things We Leave Unfinished on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. The Things We Leave Unfinished was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 22, 2026.
How much does The Things We Leave Unfinished cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $9.99, Paperback $10.00, Hardcover $23.09. Prices as of August 25, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is The Things We Leave Unfinished about?: Georgia Stanton arrives at Cross Creek with nothing left to prove and nothing left to lose, which sounds like the setup for a quiet inheritance story until you realize how much Yarros packs into the words "nothing left." She's twenty-eight, freshly divorced, stripped of the New York life she built…
Is The Things We Leave Unfinished worth reading?: We scored The Things We Leave Unfinished 4.7 out of 5. Rebecca Yarros pairs a woman rebuilding her life at her late great-grandmother's Colorado estate with the manuscript of that great-grandmother's unfinished, scandalous novel, and lets both stories unravel at once.