VOX

One of the most talked about dystopian fiction books and Sunday Times best sellers

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

'Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL

'A truly compulsive novel' STYLIST

THE SENTENCE IS AVAILABLE NOW! ''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. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you''re a woman . Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning... [100 WORD LIMIT REACHED] ...

Autorentext

Christina Dalcher is the Sunday Times bestselling author of VOX. She earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University, specializing in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects. She and her husband split their time between the American South and Naples, Italy.

Klappentext

Now in paperback, this dystopian novel is set in a world where women can only speak a hundred words a day, and are electrocuted if they break this rule. 'I can't remember the last time I read a book quite this thrilling' Louise O'Neill

Zusammenfassung
Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing - everything a great novel should be' LEE CHILDExtraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL A truly compulsive novel.' STYLISTThe book of the moment!' MARIE CLAIRE `This book will blow your mind' PRIMA