
What July Knew
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Narrated by:
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Charlotte Worthing
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Mark Meadows
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By:
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Emily Koch
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
This audiobook contains a bonus interview with the author.
A moving family mystery about the secrets we keep to protect those we love. For fans of Joanna Cannon, Janice Hallett and Jo Browning Wroe.
July knows 18 things about her mother. But not the truth.
Summer, 1995. On her tenth birthday, July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relation they don't know. It's easy for July to choose her subject. She doesn't remember her mother, who died when she was small, and her father refuses to talk about her. Ever. The only memories she has of her are flashbacks from the accident that claimed her mother's life.
But then she receives the note: 'She didn't die in a car accident.'
Determined to discover what really happened, July begins to investigate, cycling around the street where her family used to live and questioning the neighbours. When she is caught snooping round a crumbling house at the end of the road, she learns that the man living there was the last person to see July's mother alive.
In his version of the story, he is a hero. In everyone else's, he is anything but...
©2023 Emily Koch (P)2023 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Really well-written, deeply moving and psychologically affecting... Highly recommended." (Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient)
"A debut to be reckoned with." (Guardian)
"Packs a real emotional punch." (Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home)
Other parts of the story are filled in by letters and views from neighbours and even passers by.
Set over just a small part of Summer in 1995, the story evolves quickly and keeps you engrossed to find out more. It is certainly very emotional.
The narration is good too, I thought Charlotte Worthing did a good job of portraying the story and the addition of the Male narrator, Mark Meadows, for the male letters was a nice touch.
Harrowing but addictive
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Exceptional
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Fantastic!
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Pretty horrific
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