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  • Hold Your Breath

  • By: B P Walter
  • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
  • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Hold Your Breath

By: B P Walter
Narrated by: Katy Sobey
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Summary

If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise....

Kitty Marchland has always known that her family isn't like others. But when her father uproots them to a remote cottage in the woods, she realises that her parents are keeping secrets from her - secrets that could unravel everything.

Years later, Kitty starts to question what really happened out in the forest. When the police revisit a suspicious death, she must examine her most painful memories - and this time, there’s nowhere to hide....

A gripping and suspenseful thriller that will captivate you from first to last minute. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Cass Green.

©2020 B P Walter (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"To open B P Walter’s exceptional new thriller is to step through a cellar door: the air cools, your vision dims...and just a few steps later, you’re tiptoeing across the floor, desperate to switch on a torch - yet frightened of what the light might reveal. Attention, readers of Lucy Foley and Lisa Gardner: Hold Your Breath is your next favourite read." (A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window)

 "A smart thriller." (Gillian McAllister)

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Gripping tale

I really enjoyed this. Auther is a wordsmith, who tells a good tale. Excellent narration.

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Don't quite see the point of the story

It was a bit slow, really, and because most of it was told from the POV of a 10 yo girl, just a bit juvenile. The writing and narration itself was OK. I just thought the story lacked any sort of purpose. I'm still not entirely sure what I'm supposed to have got out of it. I listened to most of it at triple speed because nothing much happened for large sections. I'm a fan of this author, and then successfully managed to build up a sense of impending dread, but nothing really happened with it. The story just sort of fizzled.

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  • 16-06-21

Stupid Version of "The Exorcist"

I rooted for zero characters in this book, and I wish "the devil" had gotten them all. Embarrassing waste of time.

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  • Shari
  • 02-11-21

Brilliant

What a great book. Nothing better than getting lost in a good story. Please keep them coming.