Silence is Also a Lie

"A furious dystopian shoulder-shake ... Mathias's YA
debut is a hundred-decibel alarm call" - The Guardian

"A thrilling story with terrifying real-world resonance"
- Irish Times
What should you do with a dangerous truth?



Zara keeps secrets. It's the only way she can stay safe, now that
the hard right Party is in power. Because under the government's
British Born policy, Zara is an illegal, at risk of immediate
arrest and deportation.


She can't tell anyone who she is. And she can't tell anyone what
she knows: the truth about how her friend Sophie died.

Stay silent. Stay secret. Stay safe.
They're such
simple rules.
Until she meets
Ash...




Previously published in 2018 as Night of the Party (9781407188003)