The Quiet and the Loud
by Helena Fox (Dial Books, 2023)
audiobook read by Kaiya Jones (Bolinda, 2023)
Friendship, trauma, romance, family. Fox ticks all the best YA boxes but in an unobtrusive way, explored by a protagonist with her own real and relatable personality (not merely an everyman observer of others). Jones’s audiobook reading brings home the Australian setting.