Belinda O'Hooley says that "Que Sera" seeks to portray "the horrors of war from a woman's perspective" and "explores the feelings, sounds and senses that Edith Cavell may have felt as she stood before a firing squad".

Colin Irwin, for BBC Music, said: "Too Old to Dream is a sentimental, yet still intensely moving picture of faded memories, melded into the old Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II standard and a recording of a Dewsbury care home resident....One More Xmas might also one day be recognised as a classic.

"[7] Neil Spencer, writing in The Observer, said: "The spare, dramatic piano parts that Belinda O'Hooley formerly brought to the Unthanks have grown into rippling, neo-classical arrangements on this first album with fellow singer and songwriter Heidi Tidow... A bold, unsettling debut.

"[8] David Honigmann, reviewing the album for the Financial Times, gave it four stars, and said "the deceptively light 'Shelter Me' is a memorably off-beat love song...O’Hooley unfolds a gorgeous piano melody.

"[1] Peter Culshaw of The Arts Desk described Silent June as a "low-key but intensely beautiful and poetic album...the piano, adventurous bracing strings and vocals give it a semi-classical feel.