A Silenced Voice, Ingrid Wall
A Silenced Voice, Ingrid Wall
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A Silenced Voice
The Life of Journalist Kim Wall

Author: Ingrid Wall, Joachim Wall, Kathy Saranpa

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Synopsis

A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family’s loss, and a legacy preserved.Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day’s headline, she’d become one.As the bizarre events of Kim’s murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim’s distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by grueling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial. In the end, they’d make certain that Kim would be seen not only as a victim but as a bright, funny, complicated, ethical, and selfless young woman—a loved and loving daughter, sister, fiancée, colleague, and friend.Kim Wall’s life and promise may have been cut short, but everything she stood for lives on in this emotional memoir of braving the worst of days, moving forward, and never forgetting.

About Ingrid Wall

Ingrid Wall is a Swedish journalist, author, and mother of journalist Kim Wall. She’s worked for more than twenty-five years in the newspaper industry as general assignment reporter, news director, business reporter, and night news editor. In 2000 she was hired as head of communications at Trelleborg Municipality. She is the author of Trelleborg in the 1950s: City of My Childhood and The Beauty of Everyday Language, and coauthor with her husband, Joachim, of A Man, an Island, a Life.Joachim Wall is a Swedish photojournalist and father of journalist Kim Wall. At the age of fifteen, he had his first photograph—which was of George Harrison—published, and his career was set. After running his own picture agency, in 1985 he started working as a press photographer for the evening paper Kvällsposten in Malmö. He went on to cover events big and small, both locally and internationally, for nearly thirty years. He also coauthored a book with his wife, Ingrid, A Man, an Island, a Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ville

This was heartbreaking. What this book accomplishes is telling the story of Kim Wall, underlining how good and ambitious she was. In many ways an exceptional human being. Her life ended in the most unfair way possible. I just want to give the parents a big hug. As a book it is not perfect. That's why i......more

Goodreads review by Susanna-Sofia

I really wanted to like this book: the biography of a talented young female journalist written by her parents. At first I thought, this might work but then the book became boring: boring beyond description! There is an unbelievable amount of repetition. Events are described in exactly the same words......more

Goodreads review by meri

Heartbreaking, warm, beautiful, so lively written I could see Kim Wall before my eyes excitedly telling about her adventures. The way she had to leave this world was the most horrible thing to happen, mindless and without reason. Ingrid and Joachim Wall have managed to build a real picture of Kim via......more

Quotes

“[Kim] packed a lifetime’s worth of experience into her 30 years…A tragically short life that will hopefully serve as inspiration.” —Kirkus Reviews“In this tender memoir, the parents of Swedish journalist Kim Wall recount their daughter’s exceptional life and her murder…The authors recall their anguish and pain during the year following their daughter’s death, but also celebrate her life and share their mission to develop a memorial fund to provide young female reporters with support for their work. This is a passionate portrait of a woman’s meaningful life and her contributions to journalism.” —Publishers Weekly“In a powerful memoir, Wall’s parents share how they navigated their grief in the aftermath of their daughter’s horrific death and the investigation and trial that followed. Though their subject matter is unthinkably sad, Ingrid and Joachim Wall focus on Kim and the life she led, sharing stories of her passions and ambitions as a journalist, partner and friend.” —TIME

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