By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. Lyrics from ‘lonely boy goes to a rave’ courtesy of Teen Suicide © 2013.Īlice Oseman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.Ī catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. The HarperCollins website address is: Copyright © Alice Oseman 2016Ĭover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2016 HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Frances and friends will easily appeal to teen readers who are also grappling with all these same feelings.First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2016 It’s about identities, desires, plans, expectations, and feeling lost. It’s about people desperately in need of friends. She is studying English at Durham University, probably due to the expectation of society, but mostly spends her time obsessing over fictional characters, drawing really dumb comics, and complaining about things on her Tumblr, Hopefully, shell avoid having to get a real job for the rest of her life. The story is about the podcast, but it’s also not. Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England. There is also a lot of room for choices, or for rethinking choices, regarding what to do after school ends-namely, there are more options than just going to university and more options than just doing the thing you thought you were supposed to work toward. Frances is white and Ethiopian, Daniel is Korean, and Raine is Indian. The small ensemble of characters feature a diversity of sexual identities, including gay, bi, lesbian, and demisexual. A YA coming of age read that tackles issues of identity, the pressure to succeed, diversity and freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tour de force by the most exciting writer of her generation. It becomes clear that something very troublesome is going on with Aled, and while Frances desperately wants to do SOMETHING to help him, she doesn’t know what to do. Aled and Frances have an argument and drift apart (or rather, Aled bails on Frances and refuses to answer her calls etc).
The podcast grows in popularity, but when word gets out who is behind it, things really begin to fall apart quickly. The student goes by Radio Silence and is agender.
The premise of their podcast (which Aled starts and Frances joins eventually) is a student is sending out SOS messages from a futuristic university that they’re trapped inside of. It’s not just that Aled and Frances make a podcast together (think Welcome to Night Vale)-it’s that they make a VERY popular podcast, with a large fandom, and, as creators, stay shrouded in mystery for a long time. The summary up there doesn’t do the best job of making this sound appealing (although, yes please to more books about main character best friends who seem like they might fall in love but don’t, and yes please to stories about podcasts). I wouldn’t necessarily call this a mystery, but it has elements of a mystery, and that’s what propelled me forward. BUT, once I got roped in, I got ROPED IN. I spent a few days picking it up and finding my mind wandering, so putting it down and working on something else instead. I’ll be honest: it took me a while to get into this story. Will they have the courage to show everyone who they really are? Or will they be met with radio silence? In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. This is an utterly captivating and authentic new teen novel from the author of Solitaire, which VOYA said “could put her among the great young adult fiction authors.”įrances Janvier spends most of her time studying.Įveryone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As. She tends to act very differently around her school friends than when shes on her. Frances is very creative and an excellent scholar.
Her father is Ethiopian while her mother is English. She is close friends with Aled, Raine, and Daniel, and used to be friends with Carys before she disappeared. From critically acclaimed author Alice Oseman comes a smartly crafted contemporary YA novel, perfect for readers who love Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl. Frances Janvier is the protagonist and narrator of Radio Silence.
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