I Made You Up Inside My Head (Pre-Order July 28th 2026)

I Made You Up Inside My Head by Marta Pérez-Carbonell Pre-Order July 28th 2026

From a mesmerizing new voice in Spanish fiction, I Made You Up Inside My Head is a haunting, intellectually provocative novel about the dangerous power of storytelling and the blurred boundaries between truth and invention.

On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes captivated by the stories of two strangers sharing her compartment. One is a novelist whose controversial bestseller draws unsettlingly close to real-life trauma. The other carries silences shaped by loss. As the night unfolds, the three exchange food, drink, and confessions that drift across memory and geography—unearthing betrayals, resurfacing grief, and destabilizing the line between fact and fiction.

Elegant, unsettling, and beautifully controlled, Marta Pérez-Carbonell’s debut explores authorship, ethics, and the fragile ownership of personal stories. A striking meditation on how narratives are shaped—and who pays the price when they are.