A Financial Times Book of the Year

Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Prize in 2023

An award-winning mystery novel that explores unlikely friendships as a group of children with disabilities find themselves at the heart of an eco-crime.

On a remote Scottish island, 14-year-old Max's life ischanged forever when he loses his hearing in a boatingaccident. Now, he has to navigate a new silent worldalone-even his parents don't understand that wearinga hearing aid doesn't mean he can actually hear them, andhe's placed in a special educationalneeds class surrounded by kids he once picked on.

When people start acting strangely and Max's hearingaid picks up odd sounds from a new wind farm off thecoast, he suspects a sinister scientist is using windturbines to experiment on the islanders. Could beingdifferent be an advantage? Max enlists the help of hisclassmates to shut down the government's secret testbefore it spins out of control...

Victoria Williamson is donating 20% of her author royalties to The American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC).

About the Author

Victoria Williamson is an award-winning children's author and primary school teacher from Scotland. Her books have been recognized by numerous prizes in the UK, winning the Glasgow School Libraries' YA-ldie Prize in 2023 and the Bolton Children's Fiction Award in 2020/2021, with shortlisted places in the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award in 2021, the Trinity Schools Book Award in 2021, The Week Junior Book Prize in 2023, and regional library awards in Falkirk and Leeds in 2023.

Book Information
ISBN 9781915584618
Author Victoria Williamson
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Neem Tree Press Limited
Publisher Unbound