One of our Books of the Year 2016.
July 2016 Debut of the Month
Penetrating and intense, ‘Try Not to Breathe’ is a chokingly dark debut thriller. Amy and Alex are the same age, Alex is divorced and drinking herself to an early grave, while Amy is trapped inside her own teenage mind in a hospital bed, 15 years after a brutal attack. Alex begins to investigate the assault, at the same time as she struggles to deal with her own demons. Fast moving chapters are headed with characters names and dates, and slide around in time from 1995 to 2011. Holly Seddon writes with a sharp intensity, casting at times a desperately sad shadow, yet there is still an element of hope that struggles for survival. There is more than one jigsaw with missing pieces here, which creates a balance to the storyline. Enough information is given to allow suspicions to grow, and flourish. As each piece slots into the jigsaw, and a clearer picture starts to emerge, the writing begins to feel lighter, just as the story moves on with a harsh and bleak intensity, ensuring this is a thought provoking and riveting read.
Click here to read an interview with Holly Seddon about this book.
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Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she's cut herself off from everything but her one true love - drink. Until she's forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy. Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and left for dead in a park not far from her house. Her attacker was never found. Since then, she has drifted in a lonely, timeless place. She's as good as dead, but not even her doctors are sure how much she understands. Alex and Amy grew up in the same suburbs, played the same music, flirted with the same boys. And as Alex begins to investigate the attack, she opens the door to the same danger that has left Amy in a coma...
Try Not to Breathe Shocking. Page-Turning. A Breath-Taking Psychological Thriller features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Crime and Mystery, Debut Books of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Try Not to Breathe Shocking. Page-Turning. A Breath-Taking Psychological Thriller is available in Paperback, Hardback
Try Not to Breathe Shocking. Page-Turning. A Breath-Taking Psychological Thriller was written by Holly Seddon and published by Atlantic Books
Try Not to Breathe Shocking. Page-Turning. A Breath-Taking Psychological Thriller has 372 pages
£7.19
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