The Loudness of Unsaid Things, Hilde Hinton
The Loudness of Unsaid Things, Hilde Hinton
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The Loudness of Unsaid Things

Author: Hilde Hinton

Narrator: Hilde Hinton

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2020


Synopsis

'My heart grew, then broke, then mended itself. A wise, funny, brave novel and a story that you will never want to forget.' Favel Parrett

An unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make you kinder to those who are lost.

Miss Kaye works at The Institute. A place for the damaged, the outliers, the not-quite rights. Everyone has different strategies to deal with the residents. Some bark orders. Some negotiate tirelessly. Miss Kaye found that simply being herself was mostly the right thing to do.

Susie was seven when she realised she'd had her fill of character building. She'd lie between her Holly Hobbie sheets thinking how slowly birthdays come around, but how quickly change happened. One minute her Dad was saying that the family needed to move back to the city and then, SHAZAM, they were there. Her mum didn't move to the new house with them. And Susie hated going to see her mum at the mind hospital. She never knew who her mum would be. Or who would be there. As the years passed, there were so many things Susie wanted to say but never could.

Miss Kaye will teach Susie that the loudness of unsaid things can be music - and together they will learn that living can be more than surviving.

About Hilde Hinton

For many years, Hilde Hinton was a secondhand book dealer who read in her spare time. Then she found the courage to write her first novel and was brave enough to share it with a publisher. That critically acclaimed novel, The Loudness of Unsaid Things, made a number of bestseller lists. Her second novel, A Solitary Walk on the Moon, proved Hilde's talent was developing and now she is about to publish her third novel. Hilde is still a reader, and now a bestselling writer. She lives in Melbourne and is an avid collector of glass fruit, Lego and interesting stories.


Reviews

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com *www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton. (2020). Miss Kaye works at The Institute. A place for the damaged, the outliers, the not-quite rights. Everyone has different strategies to deal with the residents. Miss Kaye found that simply......more

Goodreads review by Kylie

Reading a book by someone you admire is always a bit fraught with danger. What if you don't like it? What if it's terrible? While I don't know Hilde Hinton, I have read Love Your Sister by her brother and sister, Samuel and Connie Johnson, which gives you a bit of an insight into Hilde's upbringing a......more

Goodreads review by Gemm

I finished reading this and was left very perplexed. I wanted to love it. But I just felt there was a... gap. There’s so much between the key event and the ending that I wanted to know more about. While one part of the story was ended, there were so many other things I wanted to know and it frustrat......more

Goodreads review by Cass

In The Loudness of Unsaid Things (Hachette 2020), Hilde Hinton has created two unforgettable female characters with distinctive voices who will each clutch at your heart. In this meandering tale of loneliness, isolation and connection, Hinton’s prose is simple, evocative of the time, and impossibly......more


Quotes

a heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful book The Australian Women's Weekly

The Loudness of Unsaid Things will be one of my most recommended books of this year. Readings Monthly