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Ali Benjamin describes her accomplished debut novel as a work where ''despair and wonder come together''. When we first meet Suzy she cannot speak after a traumatic incident. Her family is struggling to cope with her silence and she is averse to the therapy of 'Dr Legs'. It is only through her flashback sequences, written in italics, and her passion for a science report that the reader comes to know her and sympathise with her suffering. Suzy is experiencing a cauldron of emotions including grief, guilt, denial and a tumultuous desperation to discover what she perceives to be the truth. It is this zeal which makes her refuse to believe her eccentric mother's explanation that ''sometimes things just happen'' and fanatically pursue her own ''best educated guess.''