The Quiet

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'Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure.' - Ernest Cline, No.1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Ready Player One * * * A mother's love can be deafening . . . Isaac is Hannah's entire world. She knows that her son is gifted, and that those gifts make him vulnerable. To keep him safe, she spends every waking moment by his side. If she lets her guard down, lets him out of her sight, lets him show what he's capable of, he will be taken from her. When the Soundfield arrived twenty years ago, the world changed with it. Now, people are forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, resigned, she has focussed all her energies on keeping Isaac living, not just alive. To do so, she will have to lie to the people she knows and hope she can trust the ones she doesn't. Because the only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done. * * * 'As fascinating as it was terrifying.' - Holly Seddon, author of The Woman on the Bridge ''The Quiet took my breath away. gripping, fiercely intelligent and quietly heartbreaking. I will think of Isaac for a long time to come' - Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch A Killer 'A clever and unique dystopian premise, this was spare and tense, gripping and heartbreaking' - Louise Swanson, author of End of Story

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Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure -- Ernest Cline, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One
An extremely tense plot delivered through elegant prose. I found The Quiet as fascinating as it was terrifying. -- Holly Seddon, author of The Woman on the Bridge
The Quiet took my breath away. Gripping, fiercely intelligent and quietly heartbreaking. I will think of Isaac for a long time to come. -- Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch A Killer
A dystopian thriller with heart. With echoes of The Road this is a really special book. It's about connection, about hope. Tense and utterly fascinating. -- Carys Green, author of Always on My Mind
What a beautiful book, whose final pages I literally read in complete quiet. A clever and unique dystopian premise, this was spare and tense, gripping and heartbreaking. Ultimately about the sacrifices we make for a beloved child. -- Louise Swanson, author of End of Story
The Quiet is a propulsive, cerebral sci-fi thriller that asks important questions about our world today. Martin conjures a chillingly believable dystopia, but never loses sight of the characters that are finding their way through this fragile landscape. Hannah and Isaac's bond is deeply felt and had me rooting for them from the very start. -- Danielle Giles, author of Mere
A haunting journey into an eerily oppressive, near-future dystopia in which a child's song could be their family's undoing, is deftly realised by Barnaby Martin and had me hooked from the very first page. -- Leigh Radford, author of One Yellow Eye

Author Bio

Barnaby Martin is a multi-talented storyteller and creator. Besides his writing, he is an award-winning and self-taught composer, video essayist and teacher. His music has been performed widely in the UK and internationally by groups including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North and Westminster Cathedral Choir. His YouTube channel, Listening In, which he began in 2019 and for which he makes videos that explore the cross-section between pop culture and classical music, has garnered over 200,000 subscribers and ten million views. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and now teaches in London, where he lives with his husband.