*Special collector?s edition with designed foil board and endpapers, limited to the first print run*The whole world disappears when you enterTHE SILENCE FACTORY’I loved it. A delicately woven novel with an utterly original premise, it ensnared me from the very first page’ EMILIA HART’Extraordinary writing? silk, secrets and silence woven into a gleaming Gothic web. What a treat’ANNA MAZZOLA’Epic in scope and rich at sentence level, this is storytelling at its most immersive’ ERIN KELLYHenry dreams of silence.A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock.Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world ? and everything Henry is so desperate to escape.