A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Sara Barnard / Young Adult

Book cover

UK Publisher

Macmillan Children's Books

Date Published

April 15th, 2021

She doesn’t talk.
He can’t hear.
They understand each other perfectly.

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.

Love isn’t always a lightning strike.
Sometimes it’s the rumbling roll of thunder . . .


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