Preview Silence
It was odd, he reflected, how the emotions, whether they were stabs of grief or jealousy, or the happy excitement of knowing you were meeting your beloved in a few hours’ time, produced identical sensations—the racing of the blood, the downward rush in the stomach. . . .
Kim Hooper, seventeen, is jealous. His girl Judith is going out with an older man, and in his loneliness Kim feels estranged from school, friends, and parents. Then, one day, Judith vanishes. To Kim’s astonishment, his rival, Neil, asks his help in locating her. Together they go off to London to search for her—and Kim encounters a strange new world of runaways, amusement arcades, and crash pads. Kim’s father, acutely aware of the passage of years, tries to reach out to his son, but can do little to help. It is Neil’s twenty-year-old sister Wendy who begins to shatter the silence engulfing Kim and lights his way with hope. David Rees, in a sensitive portrayal of first love, frankly reveals the turbulent feelings of a teenager coming to grips with his emerging manhood.
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