The Silence Project (Paperback)

An utterly compelling page-turner, you'll keep thinking about this novel long after you've put it down. - Glamour

A page-turner - Scotland on Sunday

Carole Hailey has conjured a gripping tale of transformation; its protagonist's clear-eyed, arresting voice is impossible to ignore. This striking debut grounds itself in a world we recognize in order to invite us to imagine both darkness - and hope. The Silence Project marks the arrival of a sophisticated and compelling new voice. - Erica Wagner

Totally unique, gripping, compelling and immersive - Nell Hudson, author of Just For Today

'Multilayered and philosophical ... grippingly compulsive ... reminiscent of writers such as Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman and Miriam Toews ... inventive and original - Nation Cymru

A slow burn that leads up to an incendiary conclusion. It holds a mirror up to our cultural compulsion to have a take on every tragedy that passes our screens, and the way that movements can spiral out of control. But it's also a deep dive into the divide between a mother and a daughter, and the struggle to understand who your parents are outside their identity as your parents. - Readers Digest

Compulsive reading ... so timely in its considerations of the ownership of narrative and truth - Jane Fraser, author of Advent

A big novel, a story for our age that asks the central question: how to save an endangered world when there can no longer be heroes? Love and power burn through The Silence Project. A terrifying and beautiful coming of age story. What an achievement! - Isabelle Dupuy author of Living the Dream

Readers who enjoyed The Power or The Handmaid's Tale will be absorbed by the novel's exploration of dystopian themese - The School Librarian

A gripping, intelligent, multi-layered triumph - Andy Charman, author of Crow Court

A ferociously smart page turner, exploring how idealism curdles into fanaticism, silence into violence. Brilliantly original and inventive. - Alan Bilton, author of The Known and Unknown Sea

Arresting ... pins down the zeigeist as if with a rivet gun and is so good on the subject of cults that it might well become the focus one. Bravo. - Jon Gower

Captivating ... a nimble and fascinating page-turner - Buzz

A remarkable novel ... illustrates the evil that lies in the heart of men's (and women's) hearts when they decide their way is the only way - Meath Chronicle