Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 15 August 2010.
April 2010 Debut of the Month.
A tense tale of two 7-year old girls disappearing, it is believed together ….. but each, suffering terribly, has been taken separately for different reasons. The girls are best friends and one, Callie, has selective mutism, the other, Petra, acted as her mouthpiece. How the two are found and the dramatic events that follow are compulsively related in a terrific read.
'Fans of Jodi Picoult will devour this'Red magazine 'Deeply moving and exquisitely lyrical, this is a powerhouse of a debut novel'Tess Gerritsen 'Two little girls are missing. Both are seven years old and have been missing for at least sixteen hours.' Calli Clark is a dreamer. A sweet, gentle girl, Callie suffers from selective mutism, brought on by a tragedy she experienced as a toddler. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is trapped in a marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Now Calli and Petra's families are bound by the question of what has happened to their children. As support turns to suspicion, it seems the answers lie trapped in the silence of unspoken secrets.
'Deeply moving and exquisitely lyrical, this is a powerhouse of a debut novel.' - Tess Gerritsen
'Beautifully written, compassionately told, and relentlessly suspenseful.' - Diane Chamberlain
'Gudenkauf moves the story forward at a fast clip and is adept at building tension.' - Publishers Weekly
Author
About Heather Gudenkauf
Heather Gudenkauf is the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence. Heather was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. Having been born with a profound unilateral hearing impairment, Heather tended to use books as a retreat and escape the world around her. Heather became a voracious reader and the seed of becoming a writer was planted.
