English Hearing

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late 20s, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the spectre of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year – a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned – while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.

The most transformative memoir you will read this year - a radical, fiercely compassionate journey to reclaim the narrative around mental health. UnSound is an astoundingly brave, deeply moving memoir of life as a voice hearer and one woman’s battle to reshape how we understand the human mind...