A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay
I listened to A House for Miss Pauline on audio, which I think was a different experience for me than it would have been in print. A lot of the dialogue and inner thoughts are written in Patois, and the narrator's convincing Jamaican accent made it flow better and gave it much more of a sense of place than reading in print would have. I wouldn't have taken the time with the language that the audio forces me too. It's too easy for me to skim over bits when I'm reading an ebook or hardback, but I always listen to audios at 1.0X, never sped up.
And this is a good book to take time with. Pauline Sinclair is 99 years old and has spent her whole life in the rural Jamaican village of Mason Hall. When the stones of her house start moving and speaking to her during the night, she knows it's time to take stock of her...