Barnaby Martin

‘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.

Debut author Barnaby Martin enters the dystopian science fiction genre with a novel that echoes Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD, coupled with plenty of high-level scientific theory and his unique image of the future. At its heart, THE QUIET is a story of family and the lengths a mother will go to protect her incredibly special son in the face of much danger and uncertainty.