Lindsay Scott has a secret. She "would call it a hidden talent, but talents are supposed to be happy possessions, something to rejoice over and nurture, and maybe gloat about." But her secret skill brought her nothing but pain. "At any given moment [she] can hear anything anybody says about [her], anywhere in the world." Her skill began when she was eleven, the day before she got her first period. She had been on top of the world, the star of a hit TV show. She had what appeared to be a nervous breakdown and had to quit the TV show. For five years she has been living in a small Illinois town with her father, an adjunct professor at a local college. Her house somehow provides relief from the voices in her head. Is she the only one in the world with this skill? Will she be able to leave her safe house and lead a normal life? This in Margaret Haddix at her best. This one was hard to put down!!
"The dividing line between sanity and insanity should really be based on what you do with what you believe."
"Her gift was actually the gift of extreme compassion, of empathy beyond compare, it's that something you get when you really, really search for God."
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