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.
Comparison: Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, Michelle Richmond.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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'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.
The Weight Of Silence features in the following genres: Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
The Weight Of Silence is available in Paperback
The Weight Of Silence was written by Heather Gudenkauf and published by HQ an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Weight Of Silence has 416 pages
Yes it is part of HQ Fiction series
