VERDICT: A top pick for any YA collection.” - School Library Journal “Oseman is a master at combining sardonic wit with angst to create believable characters and a compelling contemporary story that will resonate with teens. A smart, timely outing.” - Kirkus Reviews “An intense, highly engaging, well–plotted story of relationships, explorations into gay and bisexual identities, family trauma, a straight-jacket education system, and, mostly, kids yearning to be their truest selves despite it all.” - Booklist (starred review) “Oseman vividly illustrates that the world and its technologies offer opportunities for connection and fulfillment that go far beyond traditional definitions of success.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) And it’s only by being your true self that you can find happiness.įrances is going to need every bit of courage she has.Ī coming-of-age read that tackles issues of identity, the pressure to succeed, diversity, and freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tour de force by the most exciting writer of her generation. It’s only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them.

Meanwhile at university, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets. She has to confess why Carys disappeared… Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past… Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken.Ĭaught between who she was and who she longs to be, Frances’s dreams come crashing down. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Not friends, not a guilty secret-not even the person she is on the inside.īut when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favorite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?įrances has always been a study machine with one goal: elite university. The second novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the million-copy bestselling Heartstopper books-now a major Netflix series.

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