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Storm-Voice (Silver)

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Katie is frustrated with her mother's refusal to go on holiday with the family's closest friends. After she was hit by a car, Sarah has been experiencing terrible nightmares that result in her screaming herself awake, and she's too embarrassed to go away just in case it happens in front of her friends.

But Katie loves her holidays, and so instead talks her mother into returning to her seaside hometown, in the hopes that the nightmare had something to do with an experience in her youth. Sarah has not seen her father since she was a little girl, and Katie suspects that perhaps physical abuse was involved in her mother and grandmother's reluctance to talk about the man they left when Sarah was very young.

But there seems to be more going on in the small town - whilst trying to track down her grandfather, Katie hears rumour of a ghost in the ocean, and meets a strange young girl called Christine who seems to know more than she's saying. The story accumulates in the reunion between father/daughter/granddaughter and the truth of the nightmare revealing itself once more.

"Storm Voice" is an interesting story about a family secret, the poison of guilt, and the various ways in which an adult can harm a child. Despite the above synopsis, "Storm Voice" is not a ghost story, unless you count the ghostly presence of real and half-forgotten memories that haunt the main characters.

Though there is nothing particularly memorable about it, it is a quick read and written with feeling and sensitivity, and has given me something to think about when I watch child actors in the movies. Two and a half stars.