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AudioBook information:
Author: Marta PĂ©rez-Carbonell
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth, John Telfer
Release date: July 28, 2026
Audiobook Duration: 5 h 54 min
Summary:Â A novel about the dangerous power of storytelling, set in motion by a chance encounter
On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has adapted the harrowing childhood experience of an acquaintance for his controversial recent bestseller. The translator has a complicated history of her own. Over the course of a long night, the travelers share food, drink, and confidences that range across space and time, resurfacing old losses and betrayals and blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
A deft, unsettling, brilliantly orchestrated debut by a rising international star, I Made You Up Inside My Head asks how far we are allowed to borrow—and bend—the truth to our own ends.
Reviews:
Praise for I Made You Up Inside My Head
“Compelling and relatable.” —Booklist
“Elegant … assured prose and keen psychological insights.” —Publishers Weekly
“Unsettling and powerful, this novel about who and what we choose to believe is a triumph.”—Kirkus, STARRED review
“A tremendous novel with a cool and engrossing narrative voice that resonates with memorable intensity and effect.” —William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart
“Marta PĂ©rez-Carbonell’s debut thrums with the momentum of a page turner while the sentences carry the grace of a great work of art. You’ll think about storytelling and the “truth” anew after reading this beauty.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black and Chain-Gang All-Stars
“Brilliant and beguiling. Like a perfectly executed magic trick, Pérez-Carbonell’s prose leaves you dazzled.” —Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart
“Pérez-Carbonell weaves a polyrhythmic narrative whose threads and patterns become addictive and leave behind an indelible impression.” —Ledia Xhoga, author of Misinterpretation
“A brilliant novel about how we make meaning of the people who pass through our lives.” —C J Hauser, author of The Crane Wife
“I was ensnared in the web that this cosmopolitan novel wove . . . I was spellbound.”—El Pais
“A true testament to the faith and power of words and of literature. . . Captivates the reader from the very first page with mounting tension and incomparable beauty.” –El Cultural
About the Author:
Marta PĂ©rez-Carbonell was born and raised in Spain and now teaches contemporary Spanish literature at Colgate University in upstate New York; she has also worked as a translator and interpreter. This is her first novel.
Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator whose previous work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Oxford–Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among other honors. She lives in London.