title: The Sound of Us
author: Willis, Sarah
description: Content with her life alone, except for a cat named Sampson, Alice Marlowe, a woman in her late forties, makes her living as a sign-language interpreter for the deaf, until a beautiful, terrified, six-year-old girl comes into her life and forces her to rediscover the language of love. By the author of
  Some Things That Stay
  . Reprint. 15,000 first printing.