My Silent World by Nette Hilton, ISBN 9780734410375

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Illustrated by Vincent Agostino.

The intruder is a stream of consciousness story told in beautiful blank verse by a deaf child. She treasures her silent world: From my window I can see birds in suits of black and white march across green grass. I see them cock their heads and with one quick, bright-eyed jab fetch a worm. The child s world is changed by a cochlear implant, the intruder , which at first she has fearful reactions to: What are we doing here? Why are we here? She learns to accept the intruder: Sound. Sound, I hear you. I will learn you too, but you can never be as loud as my silent world.

Ages 12+

RRP: $28.99

About the Author: Nette Hilton

Nette spent her early childhood in a small country town in Victoria, moving to Sydney when she was 11. She didn't adjust well to life in a city high school and her memories of this time are still with her and are reflected in her writing. After school, she floundered around for several years trying to work in office situations', but eventually gave up and went bush. For 12 months she worked on a sheep station, had another go at office work, and then decided to train as a teacher.

The first story she ever wrote was for her daughter, who didn't like going to school. When Nette looked for a book about a child in a similar situation, she couldn't find any so she decided to write her own. It was my way,' says Nette, of saying things that I found easier to put into written words. I still use writing in this way if I have something that needs to be said, then I try to write a story about it.'

Nette has to plan carefully to fit her writing into her busy life, even going so far as to allot time in her diary for thinking about the next book. It's important to me,' she says, that I spend time thinking about the way the book will go, what the characters will be like, how it will begin, how it will end. All these things go chugging around in my head for quite a while before I sit down and start with words on paper or a keyboard.'

Nette went through the same process in preparation for her latest novel for teenagers, Hothouse Flowers, a book which she describes as being about suicide and mental illness, youth and age, living and existing, and the value of life.

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