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A Voice of One's Own

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A story about confidence and self-belief

A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young woman's journey of self-discovery. This is a novel with a striking mission at its heart: not just to tell us a story but to show us - through the example of one life - how we might change our own.

The novel introduces us to Anna, a kind, inspiring, thoughtful but modest and self-questioning person, in whom we might catch echoes of ourselves. Life has been hard of late for Anna: her job is putting her under extreme pressure, her relationship is lacking the support she craves, her parents have saddled her with a complicated emotional history. And yet she is determined to progress and liberate herself from her inhibitions.

In a style that's brief and poignant, accompanied by lyrical and thought-provoking images, we follow Anna as she slowly unpicks the roots of her self-suspicion and discovers something we all deserve but have so often been denied: a voice of our own.

Paperback book | 176 pages | 198mm x 129mm

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Edward R. ★★★★★

The photographs scattered through this book surprised me — I kept stopping just to look at them beside the text. Watching the main character slowly trust her own feelings felt like something I needed at 32, not 19.

Natalie ★★★★★

I didn’t expect a novel to make me pause and reflect so much, but the way the photographs are woven into the story adds a whole other layer to the emotional journey. It’s not a quick read—you’ll want to sit with each chapter and let the young woman’s experiences sink in. Finished it feeling genuinel

Stella J. ★★★★★

The photographs scattered through the chapters caught me off guard—they make the emotional beats feel so much more tangible than a typical novel. I finished it in two sittings and found myself revisiting certain passages the next day just to sit with them again.