Speculative thriller · Adult · Forthcoming
WEAVER
A boy who cannot speak has heard a message no one else can. Now everyone wants him.
About the book
Yonni is nine, autistic and non-speaking, and lives with his foster parents above a fjord in Arctic Norway. He thinks in shapes and colours, loves codes, and has noticed something hidden in the timing of ordinary things: someone, somewhere, is trying to talk to him.
To Yonni, the world’s tiny delays carry a pattern. A dripping tap, a gull’s flight, the lag on a website: the pattern spells out runes, and he calls the sender the Weaver. His mother, Anita, a bookseller who studied runes, has watched over his gift since he was three. His father, Eric, a former special forces soldier who now drives a taxi, finds a boot print on the mountain behind their house. A private intelligence firm has been collecting people who can hear what Yonni hears, and it has already taken others. As an analyst inside the company begins to question her work, and a scientist at CERN asks to meet him, Yonni’s family must decide how to protect a child who insists, rightly, that he is not broken. Part thriller, part family story, WEAVER is about listening, being believed and the fierce love of the people who choose you.
The world of WEAVER
Arctic Norway
A house above a fjord in Arctic Norway, with a mountain behind it, where the timing of ordinary things carries a pattern.
Key themes
- A different way of hearing
- Neurodivergence as a gift, not a fault: “I am not broken.”
- Chosen family
- A mother and father’s fierce, practical love for a son who is not theirs by birth.
- Being believed
- Learning to tell signal from noise, and why someone needs to say “I believe you”.
- Exploitation and conscience
- Who gets to own a gift, and the people who refuse to sell one.
