Radio Silence
Written by Alice Oseman
Narrated by Aysha Kala
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About this audiobook
The second novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless, Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series.
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?
Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.
But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken.
Caught between who she was and who she longs to be, Frances’ dreams come crashing down. Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past…
She has to confess why Carys disappeared…
Meanwhile at uni, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets.
It’s only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them. And it’s only by being your true self that you can find happiness.
Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.
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.
Alice Oseman
Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England. She completed a degree in English at Durham University in 2016 and is currently a full-time writer and illustrator. Alice can usually be found staring aimlessly at computer screens, questioning the meaninglessness of existence, or doing anything and everything to avoid getting an office job. Alice's first book, SOLITAIRE, was published when she was nineteen.
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Reviews for Radio Silence
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really was not sure about this book when I started it. I’ve never really been into books written in the UK, don’t really know why. However, once I got past the very English sounding narrator and into the heart of the story, I could not stop listening.
Recommended for anyone looking for a book about friendships, finding your own path and voice. This is a great coming of age story for young adults. And made this not so young adult feel young again.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it loved it loved it, brilliantly written and captivating
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5this was brilliant — the story grabs your attention since the very first page in an effortless way.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oseman creates auch a bond with these teenage characters that I find myself always aching, feeling, loving and laughing with them and alongside them.
This story is so touching and I hope that teens who really need can find their way to it. Beautiful - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the most incredible book ever ! I wasn't expecting half of the things that this wonderful book talked about. The characters were all written so well , so true to themselves and what they believed in ! I'm at a point in my life when i really needed to hear the message of this book- that it's okay not to go to uni and it's okay to have no idea what you want to do with your life ! I wish I had a friend as great as any of them ? truly one of my favorite books, If not my favorite .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I went in with no knowledge and no expectations. I heard it might be queer and that it might break my heart. Purely 5/5. Everything I was looking for in a contemporary. A story of two best friends who make you feel like you're indeed listening to your own voice.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Listen to this in a few days and found my self very found of the characters
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me fascina como escribe Alice ?. Gracias por otra historia llena de humanidad.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simply beautiful. Such a relatable and moving plot , unravels many emotions.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was wonderful. It managed to be young and relatable without feeling preachy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wowwww... It was one of the best books i have read in a while..
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5i don’t know what i was expecting from this book but it wasn’t what i thought at all. it felt like it had no specific ending and there was just so much hatred towards the education system and people who like studying.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heartwarming, hits close to home, brilliant work that I would recommend to everyone, especially students and young people trying to figure out what next
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oseman brilliantly captures the challenges of young people making decisions at a time in their lives when they’re just learning to understand themselves. I really enjoyed the characterisations in this book for their depth and complexity. No spoiler, but one of the characters is a truly monstrous creation which made my skin crawl. I was wondering where the novel was going, but the last few chapters were a wonderfully satisfying climax to the story. Although the characters faced many tremendous challenges, their optimism through mutual support was uplifting. An enriching read indeed!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love the friendship in this book so much. All the characters are trying to find and accept who they truly are and their voices. I enjoy reading a lot. There were some moments in this book that I don’t like but overall it’s still an enjoyable read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Na realidade eu daria 3.5 estrelas, mas o app não me permite. Faltou motivações criveis nos personagens. Realmente uma pena, pois isso estragou a história é alguns personagens, na minha percepção.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“Hello. I hope somebody is listening.”
This was so much more of a beautiful and emotional story than I ever thought it would be. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really enjoyable audiobook with lots of feels and life discoveries. Even it probably mostly orientated for young adults I did like it a lot. Whole podcast thingy was great ?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is without a doubt one of the best books about mental health and anxiety. I cried.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54,6 stars
Damn. This book would have been a great read in my first year after high school, but to be honest, this really worked well still in my early thirties. Sometimes figuring out what you want from life is simply a bitch of a thing.
I also really liked the writing and the characters, but especially the friendships. Particularly Frances' and Aled's, because I'm a sucker for platonic love. I also really loved how supportive Frances's Mom is.
Alice Oseman is definitely an author to keep an eye on. One of the few YA author's I've read that write in an ageless way, where the author doesn't feel like having teenagers as your main demographic means you have to make things overly melodramatic and simplified.
I highly recommend this one, especially if you're at all feeling a little lost with your place in life. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oseman does a great job of writing believable but flawed young adults, and the stress associated with the transition from high school to 'the rest of your life', with or without parental pressure. I greatly appreciated that while there is a parent whose parenting style made me go argh, it was not the the viewpoint character's (Frances) parent -- we got to see a slightly odd but working parent/child relationship from the inside, as Frances and their parent interact throughout the story. The framing narrative of the storytelling podcast, along with the far too believable online fan interaction gives a much needed break at times. Because there are some very stressful moments in the story, not least related to exam stress, exam results, university entrance and acceptances. Although there is a romantic relationship that is core to the story, this is not a romance, but a story of multiple friendships. Of growing up and changing and working out what is important.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5teen fic with LGBTQA interest (dealing with YouTube/podcast fame, societal pressures to do well in school and go to University, plus a toxically abusive mom, set in Britain).
clever characters with snappy dialogue and problems that feel all too true and real. Frances (who happens to be half-black) is incidentally bisexual--Aled's fictional podcast identity is agender and has various anxieties. A story to make your heart ache in an asexual, aromantic way. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have no words... or maybe just a fewThis was absolutely wonderful. I wish I read a book like this when I was a YA myself (I am currently 30+). I highly recommend this, both for the writing as for the narration. I don't want to say something about the story, you can read that in the blurb. Acually, don't read the blurb, just read the book.I do want to say specificly, that the narration was spot on (obviously I listened to the audioversion of this book). I have added Aysha Kala to my list of favourite narrators and will listen to more of her performances. Probably starting with another Alice Oseman book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the mysteries of reading is getting hooked by a book, but being unable to explain why. This is a perfect example. I devoured it, but couldn't put my finger on exactly why. Let's just say it's very seductive with intriguing characters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Frances has been aiming for years to win a spot at Cambridge, sacrificing much of her personality/desires at school and relegating her hobbies--like drawing fan art for a rather small radio show, Radio Silence, that she's listened to for a couple years--to only within the confines of her own home. She used to be able to to share pieces of herself with her friend and neighbor Carys, until Carys ran away some time ago. Through a bit of chance, Frances gets to know Carys's brother, Aled, and her story starts to interact with his in unexpected ways.I loved this. I'd seen mentions of it online and figured that I might as well read it (since it sounded like parts might be really interesting to me), but I wasn't sure what I'd think of it overall. But I really enjoyed it. I thought that the concept, centered around the radio show, was really interesting and unique. The pacing was really good--I was never bored (and I think it helped that the chapters were all extremely short, making for quick reading, though they didn't feel disjointed)--and I found it really striking how much I cared about all of the characters and found myself empathizing with them.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5i love the message of this book but not the execution
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've been thinking about what I want to say in my review for this book all day and honestly? I stayed up until 5 am this morning finishing this book and I still don't know how to put all my feelings into words. So, I'm just going to say this:I relate to Frances and Aled a lot and I have so much love for them and so many feelings about them. When it comes to Aled, I can't relate to his relationship with his mother but I can DEFINITELY relate to his experience with being at university and some of the feelings he had for it, but mostly his reaction to being there. That really cut me deep. When it comes to Frances, my experience with high school and preparing for college was slightly less intense than hers but I still found myself relating to her experience a lot. It also cut me deep.So, simply saying I enjoyed this doesn't really express my feelings adequately and I'm not sure if I even have the capacity to explain how much this book means to me. What I can say is that this book and it's message is incredibly important to me. Not only that, but I also think high school students about to go off to college and even people currently in college will relate to this book and find at least a small part of themselves in it.This is a beautiful story about friendship and finding your own path in life even if it differs from the path you were told you needed to take to succeed. It's about the academic pressure teenagers are put through to get into a good college in order to be as successful as possible, even if that means sacrificing their passions and everything that is important to them. It's about diverging from the path paved for you and doing something that truly makes you happy. Not only do I find the themes of this book incredibly important, but Aled and Frances' purely platonic friendship and the intense love they have for each other makes this possibly my favorite friendship I have ever read. Ever.I'm not even sure what else to say other than I thoroughly enjoyed this and I highly recommend it, especially if you're about to go off to college or are currently in college.