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The Quiet

Brief Description
Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure - Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One A mother's love can be deafening . . . Isaac is Hannah's entire world. If she lets her guard down, he will be taken from... Read More
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What would you do to keep your child safe? The Quiet touches on many themes โ€“ the limitations of science, our relationship with past selves, the joy and solace of community โ€“ but at its core, this is a novel about a parentโ€™s love for their child and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love most.

What would you do to keep your child safe?

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Riveting. Martin weaves an inspired premise into an engrossing and wholly original adventure - Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One

A mother's love can be deafening . . .

Isaac is Hannah's entire world. If she lets her guard down, 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, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by a constant and disconcerting hum.

Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, she focuses all her energy 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.

The only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done.

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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035051502

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pan Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 352

About the Author

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.

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