Twice Built,
Twice Broken

A Life of Love, Loss & Reinvention

My Story Told with No Holding Back

Aysin Djemil: Founder of Pistachios in the Park
56 HD chaptersin 12 languages
Share this
Listen on SpotifyMore languages launching soon
Read in 12 languages

Dedicated to

my late wife Sally,
my children,
and my close friends.

🎧 Listen to the audiobook
465
Total visits
262 unique
20
📖 Read
14 unique readers
34
🎧 Listened
11 unique listeners
Narrated by

Hear a sample

Narrated by OpenAI's fable voice — male, British. Full audiobook runs 15 hours 52 minutes. Free to read and listen.

Twelve languages · one global story

Read & listen in your language

Twice Built, Twice Broken is being translated into 12 languages so its themes of love, loss, resilience and hope can cross borders. Each edition will be available as text on this site and chapter-by-chapter podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Listen on SpotifyEnglish edition
Your files

Read or listen

Storylo on Spotify
Discover Storylo
Real stories. Real lives. Real change.
From animal rescues and world disasters to activists rewriting history — Storylo brings powerful real-life stories to light, with links to support the causes that need it.
Open Storylo
Redacted PDF (names changed, faces blurred)
twice-built-twice-broken-redacted.pdf · 26.07 MB
Get ↓
Spotify / Apple Podcasts upload checklist (PDF)
twice-built-twice-broken-upload-checklist.pdf · 0.03 MB
Get ↓
Full audiobook — all 56 chapters
audiobook.zip · ~1.1 GB · for podcast upload
Get ↓
56 chapters · individual MP3s
Disclaimer0.22M
Introduction0.42M
The Beginning The Bundle The Brawl and The Broken Nose1.5M
Love and Ambition3.53M
Building a Legacy13.25M
Snow, Sax, and Second Chances4.59M
The Hardest Battle6.44M
A Game That Changed Everything3.1M
IFL3.12M
From Ashes to Desire: The Birth of Lipstick Films7.99M
The Chameleon Dress2.4M
Growth & Collapse5.55M
Keeping the team together3.82M
Where There's a Will, There's a Way5.35M
Wedding plans and Property empire14.22M
The Day I Didn't Believe My Sons1.3M
Cracks in the Foundation3.15M
Dr. Tax and the Clean Slate0.88M
New Wheels, New Dreams3.37M
Cracks in the Wall, Blood on the Snow1.46M
Pink Wheels and Wooden Dreams2.7M
A Family in the Frame1.03M
In the Army Now3.87M
The Birth of a Local Franchise3.27M
Frimley Lodge0.84M
Olympic Whispers and Royal Cheers1.01M
Of Chimney Sweeps and Courtship3.01M
A Day with Mark1.8M
Deals, Disputes, and a Dash of Faith1.54M
A Tale of Two Sons2.18M
From Guernsey Gales to Bognor Breezes3.41M
Tax Issues And Exit0.61M
From Sellers Remorse to a Legacy1.44M
Rocking the Cradle, Shaking the Ground5.95M
Jetton Park and the American Temptation1.32M
The Cost of Gold and Green4.41M
Plates in the air2.64M
The Granddad Who Wasn't2.13M
A Mint Tea Mirage1.04M
Chairs on the M1.16M
The Cost of Cake and Courtrooms6.04M
Collateral Damage of Broken Trust2.95M
The Last Will3.49M
Brexit, Banstead, and the Ties That Strain4.01M
The Crash, the Carnival, and the Quiet Return2.88M
The Day Everything Stopped8.37M
Gold, Grit, and Greasepaint15.67M
When the Law Breaks You10.78M
Held Up by Kindness4.09M
Because they needed me4.2M
Roses in Istanbul, Thorns at Home4.42M
Tell Your Mum I Love Her7.26M
My Father's Grave, My Friends' Gift6.53M
Downsize Me13.73M
Afterword0.49M
Epilogue0.53M
Reader voices

Comments

0/2000
Be the first to share what this story meant to you.
A note from the author

About this edition

For privacy reasons, certain names have been changed and faces in photographs have been obscured. The story, dialog, chapters, introduction and disclaimers remain exactly as written.

Aysin Djemil · Twice Built, Twice Broken·Founder of Pistachios in the Park
Listen onStorylo

Made with Emergent