![]() ![]() It’s set in the US and feels like it could be the present day. I need not have been concerned – I also really enjoyed Vox! Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write.įor herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. But only if you’re a woman.Īlmost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. ![]() Here’s the blurb: “Silence can be deafening. I’m always nervous when people have loved something, what if I don’t, and then they think I’m weird?! But one of my best friends said it was the first book she’d got truly invested in since Eleanor Oliphant, I had high hopes! Lots of friends had raved about Vox in our Facebook ‘book club’ – and when we had our inaugural real life book club (basically just a few of us in the pub, drinking gin and chatting about books!) I was lucky enough to be lent a copy. ![]()
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