"Heartfelt, enthralling story built round one girl’s life-consuming anxiety "
Sixteen-year-old Steffi has been selectively mute since she was five. No-one really knows why, least of all her, but teenage readers will recognise the different pressures that she feels so acutely.
Her mutism heightens her loneliness, and the loss of her much-loved step-brother in an accident has added terribly to her isolation. We meet her as she’s starting sixth form, set on reaching university, the pressure to speak greater than it’s ever been. Things change when Steffi meets Rhys, who is deaf. Steffi can sign and as their relationship grows we realise that real communication takes many forms. This is very much a story of two individuals but it will resonate with readers, who will understand Steffi’s problems, and be reassured by its message that you don’t have to be noisy to have lots to say, or to be heard.
Readers will also enjoy Holly Bourne’s excellent Spinster Club books, or the Zelah Green books by Vanessa Curtis.
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Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed A Quiet Kind of Thunder and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
A Quiet Kind of Thunder features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommended Children's eBooks, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Romance / Relationship Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Featured Books for 13+ readers, Stories about Family and Friends
A Quiet Kind of Thunder is available in Paperback
A Quiet Kind of Thunder was written by Sara Barnard and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
A Quiet Kind of Thunder has 307 pages
£8.09
