Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O’Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. And, increasingly, they are plagued by visions and dreams and the realization that perhaps no-one could have survived the avalanche. But each time they find themselves back in the village.

As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. Zoe and Jake are hit by an avalanche when. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. Graham Joyce's near-perfect novella of near-death experience, isolation and winter cold is a tour de force representation of that sort of realisation. The film rights have been optioned by the producer of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.Ī young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. Joyce has written a mysterious masterpiece, a tour de force that will thrill fans of Peter Straub and the hit television show Lost.THE SILENT LAND is a brooding and tender look at love and whether it can survive the greatest challenge we will ever face. Together they will face the ultimate test of their love for each other, and they will be forced to decide what their lives are worth-and what they will sacrifice to save each other.

The Silent Land is a brilliantly conceived novel that puts a husband and wife in a strange and frightening reality where it would seem they are the last two people on Earth. And as the couple begins to witness unsettling events neither can ignore, they are forced to confront a frightening truth about the silent land they now inhabit. They are trapped by the storm, completely isolated, with another catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury them alive…again. An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying situation alone. In execution, its a remarkably eerie and. Their hotel is devoid of another living soul. In summary, Graham Joyces macabre, World Fantasy-nominated story sounds like a lazy compendium of clichs. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the snow-only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. Title: The Silent Land Author: Graham Joyce Genre: It seems to be categorised Literary Fantasy, whatever that means. Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports listeners to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with this hypnotically dark story…a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth.In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing.

The Silent Land by Graham Joyce