TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Louisa TI - Speak SN - 9780356506098 U1 - 823 21 PY - 2015///] CY - Great Britain: PB - CPI Group(UK) LTD, Croydon CR0 4YY KW - Communication KW - Fiction KW - Comprehension KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Psychological fiction N2 - A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike dolls. Each of these characters is attempting to communicate across gaps -- to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them ER -