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The quality of silence : a novel / Rosamund Lupton.

By: Publication details: London : Little, Brown & Company, 2015.Description: 340 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780349408132
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6112.U77 Q35 2015
Summary: Set in the extreme landscape of Alaska. Follows the story of Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby. Yasmin arrives in Alaska to be told her husband, Matt, is dead, the victim of a catastrophic accident. Yasmin, unable to accept this as truth, sets out into the frozen winter landscape, taking Ruby with her in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realises that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night. In a story that explores the very limits of human resilience.
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Set in the extreme landscape of Alaska. Follows the story of Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby. Yasmin arrives in Alaska to be told her husband, Matt, is dead, the victim of a catastrophic accident. Yasmin, unable to accept this as truth, sets out into the frozen winter landscape, taking Ruby with her in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realises that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night. In a story that explores the very limits of human resilience.

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