Truth Needs No Colour
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Life is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. Her father's missing and her activist mother is dead. Marooned with her grandparents in the cyclone-wrecked South Island, life is dominated by Carapace, a corrupt
corporation. When Mariana wears a red dress to her new school, she breaks an obscure rule and puts her family at risk.
Mariana yearns to stand up for her friend Filiki, who's trapped in Carapace's school-to-prison pipeline. Fear keeps her silent. When Mariana finally speaks up, it's to disastrous effect and puts everyone she loves in danger.
As she confronts her fears, Mariana must make her voice heard-because this time it might change everything.
Truth Needs No Colour is a haunting novel about the difference one voice can make.
Author: Heather McQuillan
ISBN: 9781738594368
Publisher: Cloud Ink Press Ltd
Published: 01/03/2025
Format: Paperback / softback
About the Author
Heather McQuillan is an award-winning writer based in Otautahi Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as writing for young people she writes short fiction, flash fiction and poetry and has been widely published in Aotearoa and internationally. She has a Master of Creative Writing with distinction from Massey University and her thesis
collection of short stories was published in the UK as Where Oceans Meet. In 2005 she won the Tom Fitzgibbon Award and three of her novels for young people so far have been awarded Storylines Notable Books. Her
previous novels for young writers are Mind Over Matter, Scholastic NZ, 2006; Nest of Lies, Scholastic NZ, 2011; Avis and the Promise of Dragons. The Cuba Press. 2019 and Avis and the Call of the Kraken, The Cuba Press, 2024.
Heather is the director of Write On School for Young Writers where she works to give agency to young writers.