Readers recommend: Whispering songs

If you're a kid, whispering can be comforting, soothing or even fun; for adults, it often takes on a much more sinister hue, as this week's selections provePerhaps as a result of one too many nights spent ­demanding that my mother mop my brow and calm my fevered thoughts, I have always believed the whisper to be a consoling sound. Turns out, not for the first time, I could not have been more naive. Yes, for children a whisper may be gentle and soothing, but for adults the whole thing is swit...

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