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#Radio silence characters full#

It's so relevant to now, that I'm not sure if it's going to be a Zeitgeist, stuck forever as one of the best books of 2016 and forgotten by the generations to come. The one thing I don't love about this story: I'm worried about is how it'll work in a couple of years time. Getting to read Frances's uncertainty about university was actually reassuring: it doesn't have to be something that everyone does! I nearly put in an application a couple of weeks ago. I really related to this: I chose not to go to university at the end of sixth form, but because of circumstances in my workplace a lot of my colleagues have been recommending that I reconsider. It deals with the fact that people feel pressured to go to university. But that doesn't stop people from assuming that her and Aled are dating, incorrectly presuming his sexuality and cementing societies unavoidable need to romantically link people. The story focuses on her relationships with her friends and her attempts to accept who she is and be herself in every situation, rather than compartmentalising Real Frances with School Frances. If you went to school, you'll have interacted with people of different races and sexualities every day - it's just what happens when you put that many people in an environment together! - so it's illogical to only represent one type of person in such a mixed setting.įrances doesn't have a romance. That's not the case with this book, which is so natural and realistic. Sometimes it feels as though this wide range of diversity is shoehorned in, a way to make the book appeal to a wider range of readers and get better sales.

#Radio silence characters full#

Raine - full name Lorraine Sengupta - is in the middle of an art project for coursework on 'racism against Hindus in Britain'.

Daniel's real name is Dae-Sung, but his mother changed it after he was bullied as a child, saying "How about we give you a real English name, huh?".

Frances is mixed race, having an Ethiopian father and a white mother, and she wishes she "was closer to her ethnicity in general", wanting her father's surname of Mengesha rather than her name of Janvier.

Daniel is gay, Aled is demisexual (which I've never seen featured in YA before, and is brilliantly explained!), Frances is bisexual and Carys is a lesbian.

Can the girl who hates failure succeed at this seemingly impossible task? Frances blames herself for the world finding out his secret, and is determined to fix things between them and get the show back on air. That doesn't seem possible in this over-connected internet age, and soon enough Aled's name is floating around in the 'Universe City' tag, along with pictures of him and Frances taken from his personal Facebook.Īled goes to university and cuts all contact with Frances and Daniel, and within a couple of months he's ended the podcast. Frances attempts damage control and admits that they're right, but begs everyone to leave the Creator alone and let his identity remain a secret.

If people find out who he is, his mum will force him to end the podcast, and it's all he's ever really cared about. Messages flood in demanding she tells everyone who the Creator is, and after her, Aled, and Aled's best friend and sort-of boyfriend, Daniel get drunk and upload a video of them messing around in a field, the messages change from questions to accusations: her real name is Frances Janvier, and she should just admit it.Īled panics. But if she was shocked to find out Aled was a fan, she's doubly surprised when he tells her he's not just another listener: he's the mysterious, anonymous Creator, and he's been living opposite her the entire time.īecoming fast friends, Frances starts making art for 'Universe City', growing her fandom blog from a few hundred followers to thousands.