The Last Photograph

Reviews – The Last Photograph. Starting with a death, the narrative weaves past and present against a backdrop of the Vietnam war and London in the 6. Two conflicting worlds, writ large within the soul of our protagonist. Authentic and compelling, this is a novel that delivers as a piece of art can, revealing itself in reflection and leaving a lasting impression.

Chapman shows real empathy for loneliness and the cruelty of ageing. On one level a chilling tale of suspense among the Norwegian fjords, it offers the reader so much more. The chances are that one you open it, you’ll want to finish it all in one go.' - Daily Mail. It is also a deeply unsettling exploration of a fragile mind unravelling, either through the weight of its own paranoid delusions or painful memories too- long suppressed. It will stay with you long after you turn the final page.’ - Style etc magazine.

Chapman has written a book as chilling as a Scandinavian fjord in winter, but also as clear, clean and compelling’ - The Australian. Marta’s voice is compelling and convincing and the prose often Hemingway- esque in style. This is a tremendous book.' - Huffington Post'Fans of Before I Go To Sleep will love this chilling debut from Emma Chapman.' - Grazia. A must- read for fans of S J Watson’- Easy Living.

It throbs with a ghastly expectation of what might happen any minute now.’ - Tessa Dunlop, Classic FM. It’s an accomplished debut from a writer who shows insight and emotional power’Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall. How To Be a Good Wife is at once claustrophobic, startling and hauntingly beautiful. It’s that amazing, awful kind of book that will stay with you long after you wish it would let you go’Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers in Red Weather. Is the fragile Marta slipping into paranoia? Or glimpsing agonising insights into a devastating nightmare about herself and her 'perfect' marriage. Brilliantly written and utterly gripping.

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I loved it.’Hannah Richell, author of Secrets of the Tides. The Reaping on this page. A beautiful and disturbing novel. I loved it’Susanna Jones, author of When Nights Were Cold.

As soon as you've read it you'll want to talk about it’Evie Wyld, author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice . As unsettling as any ghost story’Simon Lelic, author of Rupture and The Child Who'An impressive debut novel. Hyland, author of the Booker- shortlisted Carry Me Down and How the Light Gets In.

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The Last Photograph by Emma Chapman — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. He walks into the living room and June is dead. He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter. He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say that he had acted without thinking, out of instinct.