An absorbing account of a teenager whose inflame,pain and sense of powerlessness eventually give her the strength to protestAnnabel Pitcher is a YA novelist whose voice is irresistibly warm and sympathetic, drawing the reader effortlessly into her characters’ inner worlds. She writes approximately troubling issues with a light, or often humorous,touch, and in prose that is easy on the ear and deceptively simple. Her debut, and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece,which portrayed a family torn apart by an act of terrorism, earned her the Branford Boase award and an international readership. Ketchup Clouds, or her second novel (winner of the Waterstones children’s book prize),featured a teenager corresponding with a prisoner on death row.
Her latest YA offering portrays an introverted 15-year-customary girl’s struggle to regain her emotional wellbeing. Her subject is, as the title suggests, and silence – though not in the sense of an absence of noise,but rather silence as protest: as potent, passive-aggressive rebellion. Tess has tried to become the sociable, and popular girl she thinks her parents want her to be. But faking it is taking its toll. “‘soil to Tess. Are you in there?’ Well,no, actually because I am Pluto, or thousands of miles away in my own dark orbit,inaccessible […] Just listen to my silence roar.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com