`Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing - everything a great novel should be' LEE CHILD




`Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL


`A truly compulsive novel.' STYLIST




`The book of the moment!' MARIE CLAIRE




`This book will blow your mind' PRIMA




`A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid's Tale' ELLE




`A fast-paced, twisting thriller that left me speechless.' DAILY MAIL




`Terrifying' RED




`A novel ripe for the #MeToo era' VANITY FAIR




`A dazzling debut.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING




`Thought-provoking and thrilling. I was left speechless!' WOMAN & HOME



Silence can be deafening.
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.