An astonishing personal journey from hearing to deafness and back again helps Bella Bathurst explore what sound, listening and silence mean to us
Bella Bathurst is a writer and photojournalist. Her books include The Lighthouse Stevensons which won the 1999 Somerset Maugham Award, The Wreckers, which became a BBC Timewatch documentary, and The Bicycle Book, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2011.
A book to remind us to treasure the gift of sound.
*Times*
Fascinating ... Bathurst is a restless, curious writer, and she
interweaves the story of her own experiences with imaginative
research around hearing and sound ... After reading this book, I
found myself listening in a richer and more interested way.
*Guardian*
'Extraordinary ... echoes long after you have turned the final
page.
*Mail on Sunday*
'Her writing draws on all the senses ... This is a moving and
fascinating book, all about sound and what it means to be human. It
has its share of sound and fury, and benefits from a journalist's
ability to listen. Many people with hearing loss, and more without,
would benefit from hearing its message.
*Financial Times*
Terrifying, absorbing and ultimately uplifting. It's a hymn to the
faculty of hearing by someone who had it, lost it and then found it
again, written with passion and intelligence and full of matters
that I knew little about. It's a brave and important work
*Literary Review*
An empathetic, sensitive look at how a physical loss can transform
the way you understand the world and how you live in it
*Sunday Express*
Poignant ... I suspect [deafness] sharpened her writing. Bathurst's
drive to communicate has been channelled into excellent
non-fiction
*Daily Telegraph*
Bathurst is good on aural geography ... when her hearing is
restored, it is returned to someone who is profoundly changed by
the experience
*Guardian*
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