Paperback released 26th August 2019 and ebook released 26th September 2019 by Louise Walters Books.
1960s New York: Emma Bowden lives the glamorous Manhattan lifestyle - swish apartment, with fabulous views; a loving, surgeon husband; and a successful writing career. Surely she has everything? What more could she want?
But Emma's background and upbringing have left their mark, and one summer, while Emma and her husband are on vacation in the Hamptons, a young child drowns in the sea and Emma may have been involved in some way. If only she could remember what really happened...
Old wounds are reopened, and Emma, who has been barely holding on to the facade of a normal life, starts to spiral out of control, as the voice in her head cannot be ignored.
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I was honoured to be able to read Diana Cambridge's Don't Think A Single Thought a couple of months ago and it is one of my standout reads of the whole year (see the link to my earlier review below)!
This time, Louise Walters was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the new audio book version, so I could immerse myself in the story of Emma Bowden all over again. Thank you so much Louise Walters! xx
Oh, Louise and Diana, this is glorious! The audio version complements the printed word wonderfully. The narration of Samara Naeymi is so completely convincing that she brings Emma Bowden alive and perfectly matches the Emma in my head. She brings out Emma's frustration and almost sensual relationship with clothes, food and beauty in such a way that you can almost feel, taste and lose yourself in them as much as Emma does in her early years - while at the same time, being able to express Emma's decline and loss of interest in all the things she used to enjoy about life too. Outstanding work!
This has made me fall in love with Diana's book all over again, and appreciate the clever way she tells Emma's tragic story in the pages of the book. I cannot praise this book enough.
I highly recommend the audio book, even if you have already read the printed version - if you have not read it, then get to it as soon as you can, because this is going to become a modern classic. Literary fiction at its very best.
See my original 5* review here: Don't Think A Single Thought (Paperback)
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