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    The Secrets in Silence

    By Nicole Trope

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    A hard-hitting, stunning novel about secrets and silence—and how sooner or later the truth must be spoken

    There was so much anger brewing in the child that sometimes Alicia feared for all of them. And now she had gone and done this terrible thing. This terrible, terrible thing.

    Tara has lost her voice. She knows there was pain and fear but she cannot remember anything else. Now she can only answer the questions with silence. Minnie has buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation, keeping her secrets safe and her broken heart concealed. Liam finds refuge in silence; it is a place to go to when he cannot get the words out. Kate cannot speak for herself just yet. People are only separated from each other by moments, fate, and coincidence. One teenage mistake, one shocking choice, and one terrible night will lead to courage found, voices raised, and the truth finally spoken.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllen Unwin
    Release dateFeb 1, 2016
    ISBN9781495639975
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    • 5/5
      "Emergency Services". "Yes, it's my daughter. I need an ambulance for her. I need an ambulance right now! My daughter is passed out and bleeding. She's bleeding everywhere"From those first words author Nicole Trope had me hooked. This was one of the best books I've read in a long time.This is a story about voices. It's a story about Tara who has lost her voice because of a traumatic experience. It's about Minnie who's buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation. It's about Liam who finds refuge in silence and about Kate who can't speak for herself just yet.Nicole Trope is a brilliant writer. She has a way of making the story flow from beginning to end. I don't give too many books 5 stars but this one deserved it. I won this book on Goodreads.
    • 5/5
      The Secrets in Silence, Nicole Trope’s third book, is an emotionally charged and gripping novel.As Minnie stands in a bathroom stall, swaddling a mewling newborn infant in her scarf before placing her gently in the shopping bag she is carrying, Tara lies in a hospital bed, her head turned away from the concerned gaze of the doctor, the worried eyes of her father and stepmother and the frown of the policeman hovering in the doorway. ‘Where is the baby?’ they ask again and again, but Tara can’t tell them anything… and Minnie, cradling a miracle, won’t tell anyone.From the dramatic opening scene of this story I was hooked and couldn’t put this intense, moving novel aside. With compassion, tenderness, and searing honesty, Trope exposes a young girl’s anguish, a lonely woman’s joy and the two shocking incidents that bind them.Each of the characters that help to tell this story take refuge in silence. While Tara feels she is literally unable to communicate, others elect to remain silent, Minnie to protect her love of baby Kate, Alicia to avoid confronting some uncomfortable truths, and Liam to avoid revealing his weakness. Eventually though, they must all find their voice in order to save each other, and themselves.There is a constant undercurrent of anticipation throughout the novel and this tension compensates for some of the minor plot contrivances which connect Tara and Minnie in the aftermath of Kate’s birth. The brutality of the conclusion is unexpected and a happy ending is not assured for any of Trope’s characters, speaking out will be just the first step.Like Nicole Trope’s previous novels, The Boy Under the Table and Three Hours Late, The Secrets in Silence is an engrossing, affecting and poignant story I devoured in one sitting, and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend.