The Quiet

Barnaby Martin

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English

Macmillan
13 May 2025

Fiction & Literature; Thriller & suspense; Science fiction

'Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure.' - Ernest Cline, No.1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Ready Player One
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A mother's love can be deafening . . .

Isaac is Hannah's entire world. She knows that her son is gifted, and that those gifts make him vulnerable. To keep him safe, she spends every waking moment by his side. If she lets her guard down, lets him out of her sight, lets him show what he's capable of, he will be taken from her.

When the Soundfield arrived twenty years ago, the world changed with it. Now, people are forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, resigned, she has focussed all her energies on keeping Isaac living, not just alive.

To do so, she will have to lie to the people she knows and hope she can trust the ones she doesn't. Because the only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done.
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'As fascinating as it was terrifying.' - Holly Seddon, author of The Woman on the Bridge

''The Quiet took my breath away. gripping, fiercely intelligent and quietly heartbreaking. I will think of Isaac for a long time to come' - Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch A Killer

'A clever and unique dystopian premise, this was spare and tense, gripping and heartbreaking' - Louise Swanson, author of End of Story

By: Barnaby Martin
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781035051496
ISBN 10: 1035051494
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Barnaby Martin is a multi-talented storyteller and creator. Besides his writing, he is an award-winning and self-taught composer, video essayist and teacher. His music has been performed widely in the UK and internationally by groups including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North and Westminster Cathedral Choir. His YouTube channel, Listening In, which he began in 2019 and for which he makes videos that explore the cross-section between pop culture and classical music, has garnered over 200,000 subscribers and ten million views. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and now teaches in London, where he lives with his husband.

Reviews for The Quiet

Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure -- Ernest Cline, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One An extremely tense plot delivered through elegant prose. I found The Quiet as fascinating as it was terrifying. -- Holly Seddon, author of The Woman on the Bridge The Quiet took my breath away. Gripping, fiercely intelligent and quietly heartbreaking. I will think of Isaac for a long time to come. -- Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch A Killer