The Silence, Daisy Pearce
The Silence, Daisy Pearce
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The Silence

Author: Daisy Pearce

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2020

Synopsis

She’s broken. She’s vulnerable. She’s just what Marco was looking for.Stella Wiseman was a child TV star, but there’s nothing glamorous about her life now. Alone in her thirties, she’s lost her parents and her friends and she’s stuck in a dead-end job. But just as she hits rock bottom she meets Marco, a charismatic older man who offers to get her back on her feet. He seems too good to be true.Is he?She appreciates the money he lavishes on her. And the pills. But are the pills just helping her sleep, or helping her avoid her problems?With Stella’s life still in freefall, Marco whisks her away to a secluded cottage where she is isolated from everyone except him. But the closer he pulls her, the worse she gets. He tells her it’s all in her head, and she just needs time away from the world.No longer sure what’s real and what’s not, Stella begins to question whether she was wrong to trust Marco. Was she wrong to trust herself? Is the one person she thought was fighting for her survival actually her biggest threat?

About Daisy Pearce

Daisy Pearce was born in Cornwall and grew up on a smallholding surrounded by hippies. She read Stephen King’s Cujo and The Hamlyn Book of Horror far too young and has been fascinated with the macabre ever since.She began writing short stories as a teenager and dropped out of a fashion journalism course at university when she realised it wasn’t anywhere near as fun as making stuff up. After spells living in London and Brighton, Daisy had her short story ‘The Black Prince’ published in One Eye Grey magazine. Another short story, ‘The Brook Witch’, was performed on stage at the Small Story Cabaret in Lewes in 2016. She has also written articles about mental health online. In 2015, The Silence won a bursary with The Literary Consultancy, and later that year Daisy also won the Chindi Authors Competition with her short story ‘Worm Food’. Her second novel was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Award.Daisy currently works in the library at the University of Sussex, where she shelves books and listens to podcasts on true crime and folklore. She lives in Lewes with a one-eyed Siamese cat and a nine-year-old daughter who occasionally needs reminding that ghosts and monsters aren’t real.Sometimes she almost believes it herself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CYIReadBooks on March 16, 2020

Without giving away the story, all I can say is that it's a predictable narrative. Gaslighting, narcotics, psychological abuse are the mainstays of this novel. It's a decent read if you just go with the flow and avoid any critical thinking about the storyline. Three stars - I liked it. Thanks to Goodr......more

Goodreads review by Misty on November 01, 2021

Another case of a bridge too far, this is a decent book that could have been great but for the heavy-handed prose. Pearce takes a straight forward story that builds suspense and turns it on its ear, drowning in self-indulgent writing that takes itself far too seriously. Characters spend too much tim......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 12, 2020

This is a great psychological thriller. Stella meets Marco and slowly starts to fall in love with him. He recognises her from being a child star in a sitcom and seems to have been a big fan. Stella is encouraged by Marco to take a pill each day to calm her nerves but soon she’s soon spaced out, she......more

Goodreads review by Charlee on February 11, 2020

This was my Amazon First Reads pick for the month of February. It's one thing to be a broken individual that someone could easily prey on. It's quite another to be that AND painfully stupid. That's the reason I could not finish this book. Not only was it glaringly obvious from chapter one as to what......more

Goodreads review by Christa on February 09, 2020

It's taken me a bit of time to get to this review because I found the central relationship quite hard to stomach (due to past experience) - Daisy's depiction of gaslighting is spot on. But The Silence is what they call a 'total banger' and I read it in one sitting. I'm awed by the author's turn of p......more

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