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    The Quality of Silence: A Novel
    The Quality of Silence: A Novel
    The Quality of Silence: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Quality of Silence: A Novel

    Written by Rosamund Lupton

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter’s quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards.

    Thrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, Ruby, who arrive in a remote part of Alaska to be told that Ruby’s father, Matt, has been the victim of a catastrophic accident. Unable to accept his death as truth, Yasmin and Ruby set out into the hostile winter of the Alaskan tundra in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realizes that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night.

    Written in breathtaking, pitch-perfect prose, The Quality of Silence explores the powerful love of a family and the very limits of human resilience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 16, 2016
    ISBN9781501221057
    The Quality of Silence: A Novel
    Author

    Rosamund Lupton

    Rosamund Lupton is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the novels Sister and Afterwards. Her New York Times bestselling debut Sister was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Target Book Club pick, winner of the Strand Magazine Critics Award, and has been translated into more than thirty languages, with international sales of over 1.5 million copies. Lupton lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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    • 2/5
      *SPOILERS*
      If you can suspend disbelief for this entire novel - that is not written as a fantasy novel - it is an enjoyable, well-written book.

      But given the genre, I found it difficult to suspend disbelief, and the story comes across as a series of idiotic decisions made by supposedly very intelligent adults and a 10 year old girl.

      There are too many coincidences and unbelievable, unrealistic plot points to really say that I enjoyed this story. In summary, an English couple and their daughter, separately, trek across the Alaskan Tundra in search of one another. One in a commandeered 18-wheeler, in a "hurricane snow storm" and the other with a borrowed (with permission) sled & team of huskies. Neither has any reliable communication devices, nor do they actually know the other is there until they both bump into each other trekking on foot across a frozen lake.

      I wanted the book to be good. The subject matter was interesting, and the skeleton storyline was topical and addressed important environmental issues. I found myself constantly frustrated by the decisions made by the characters.

      To end this frustrating read, I felt there was a non-ending. There was no closure on what actually happened, in the bigger picture or to the characters who were ultimately left on the frozen lake with a crazy guy. What happened? Going by the rest of the story, anything could have happened, and it probably wasn't going to be the sensible ending I think the reader is supposed to assume.
    • 4/5
      Great story! The world seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old deaf girl changed my understanding of sound and communication.
      The narrator is good but her American accents are awful-- my only complaint.
    • 2/5
      I wanted to like this book but it is so depressing and dark. Maybe I will go back to it later. But for now I need something not so depressing…