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The Old Kitchen Table: Four generations of the same conversations

Harriet Combe · narrated by Agnes Loch

2026

3h 12m
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Some tables outlast the people who sit at them, holding decades of the same questions asked in different voices. This traces one such table through four generations: the recipes that never got written down, the arguments that resurfaced every holiday season under a different name, the silences that said more than words, and the small rituals of pouring coffee and pulling out chairs that quietly held a family together. Unhurried, tender, and deeply familiar.

Inside this audiobook

18 chapters

  1. 1Where We Start6m
  2. 2Chapter 1: The Table That Never Moved13m
  3. 3Chapter 2: What Actually Happens at a Table13m
  4. 4Chapter 3: How the Conversations Began14m
  5. 5Chapter 4: The Sunday Bread12m
  6. 6Chapter 5: Mending Things Out Loud12m
  7. 7Chapter 6: Tea and the Long Pause13m
  8. 8Chapter 7: The Jar of Vinegar Cures11m
  9. 9Chapter 8: Letters Left Under the Salt13m
  10. 10Chapter 9: The Children's End of the Table13m
  11. 11Chapter 10: When the Chairs Changed Hands12m
  12. 12Chapter 11: The Winter They Almost Lost the House11m
  13. 13Chapter 12: Keeping the Table Set14m
  14. 14Chapter 13: The Recipe Box14m
  15. 15Chapter 14: The Table Waiting for the Next One13m
  16. 16The Last Word3m
  17. 17About the Author1m
  18. 18Before You Close the Book1m
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