This is a review of the audiobook adaptation of Max Porter's Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, newly narrated by actor Russell Tovey. First published as a novella in 2015 and since adapted into a stage play and film, the book uses verse, dialogue and a supernatural conceit to explore a family's mourning after the sudden death of a wife and mother, told from the shifting perspectives of "Dad", "Boys" and "Crow".

The story follows a widower and his two young sons visited by a giant crow who declares he "won't leave until you don't need me anymore", offering a strange, protective presence amid the household's grief. The reviewer praises Tovey's performance as bravura, capturing both the menace and compassion of the crow and the raw devastation of the father, who rejects the idea of "moving on" as he works on a book about poet Ted Hughes. The audiobook, released via Faber, runs 1 hour 52 minutes.