{"id":42278,"date":"2026-08-04T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/?p=42278"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:50:22","slug":"the-ballad-of-ronan-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/the-ballad-of-ronan-mccoy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Ronan McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The instant\u00a0<em>Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Branagh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship\u2026One of the most moving books I\u2019ve read in some time&#8217;<strong>\u00a0John Boyne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brendan&#8217;s best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney\u2019s Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan&#8217;s around.<\/p>\n<p>Ronan is smart and sporty and popular, totally comfortable in his own skin: all the things that Brendan himself isn&#8217;t. But Ronan always makes him feel like a good friend, a good person, a\u00a0<em>better<\/em>\u00a0Brendan.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan&#8217;s stomach. And when Ronan doesn\u2019t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer and he&#8217;ll never be the same again. Over the course of the final year of school, Brendan will have to learn to navigate the new shape of their friendship and find a place for himself in the world without Ronan to protect him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Ballad of Ronan McCoy\u00a0<\/em>is a beautifully written, tender coming-of-age story about friendship and first love, loss and letting go, and the hopes and fears of a young man standing on the cusp of the rest of his life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*****<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018An empathetic and thoughtful debut\u2019\u00a0<strong><em>Irish Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Soaring, lyrical and heart-breaking\u2019\u00a0<strong>Michelle Gallen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018A fresh and authentic voice is found in this impressive and original debut about grief, loss and the enduring power of love\u2019\u00a0<strong>Christine Dwyer Hickey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018A gripping, clear-eyed, moving look at loss and love in a country town in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland\u2019\u00a0<strong>William Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>The Ballad of Ronan McCoy<\/h3>\n<p>By: Colin Morgan<br \/>\nNarrated by: Colin Morgan<br \/>\nLength: 10 hrs and 12 mins<br \/>\nRelease date: 06-18-26<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nFormat and Bitrate: M4B@65 kbps<br \/>\nSize: 292.22 MB<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/f152ab9ba249d5712795995e98f587f6\/Colin_Morgan__-_The_Ballad_of_Ronan_McCoy.m4b.html\"><strong>Download from RAPIDGATOR<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instant\u00a0Sunday Times\u00a0bestseller &#8216;A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart&#8217;\u00a0Kenneth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,148],"tags":[7209],"series":[],"narrator":[],"class_list":["post-42278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-teen-young-adult","tag-colin-morgan","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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