Imagine being 11 years old. In a bid to control just a part of your life you build a wall of silence around yourself. However, soon the silence that protected you becomes an entity unto itself and it becomes your jailor.This beautiful novel portrays a family in crisis. Dad Wilson and mum Ruth hav...
It is early—not yet seven o’clock—but she has been up for hours, unable to sleep for the yammering of starlings gathered in the trees outside and the oddly empty racing of her mind, so she’s decided to give in, get up, and start the day. It is the first day of what is forecasted to be a heat wave...