'Mellet manages an amazing feat - a feisty character that has the reader simultaneously feeling shaken, punching the air, furious at the system and wryly smiling at the dark humour. A poignant story about what it is to be human - without shying away from the difficult stuff yet ultimately full of hope.' ANNE BUIST, co-author of The Glass House

'Savage, brilliant and funny - Tracey Read is one of the most alive characters I've come across in recent contemporary literature. Things I Cannot Say is original and thrilling. It stayed with me and made me see the world differently, which is about the best thing you can ask from a novel; Geraldine Mellet is a standout new voice.' KATHRYN HEYMAN, author of Circle of Wonders

'This is an astonishingly clever debut novel that achieves that most difficult of writerly objectives: to step inside the unimaginable. Mellett puts us at the centre of Tracey's new life, a life stripped of movement and voice, and somehow makes this rich interiority a place of warmth and humour and mounting resolve. This utterly compelling story and its cast of memorable characters stole my life for several days and I marvelled afterwards at what had been achieved and how I had been changed.' CARRIE COX, author of Storylines

'As a disabled advocate who has lived in an institution, I feel Geraldine has written a story that needed to be told, not as biography, but a mystery that can only really get solved by people who know the same risk. This is a story of disabled people as both victims and heroes, without being a story of inspiration or tragedy. It is Tracey's journey of re-finding herself as she adapts to a new way of being. It rings true for me and I highly recommend it.' SAMANTHA JENKINSON, Strategic Disability Advisor

'A stunning and deeply moving book that takes the reader deep inside a body broken but a mind fierce and sharp and brimming with life. This compelling and important book is a journey of love and power and the voice we all have inside to advocate for ourselves and others, even when it's not an audible one.' MICHELLE JOHNSTON, author of The Revisionists

'I loved this beautiful book, imbued as it is with heartache and humour, sharpness and wit, tragedy and hope. Tracey Read is a fabulous character and Geraldine Mellet brings her to life with an unflinching frankness, clever observations and wry asides.' SUZANNE LEAL, author of The Watchful Wife

'Geraldine has done an amazing job with her first novel. While the novel is easy to read, the reality that Tracey confronts is frighteningly accurate, leaving the reader in no doubt that condemning a young person to be "warehoused" in an aged care facility is wrong on every level. Geraldine's beautifully crafted descriptions of the residents and the workers at the Last Resort provide a powerful sense of the suffocating sameness of each day in the facility and just what that means to young and old residents alike.' DR BRONWYN MORKHAM, National Director, Young People In Nursing Homes National Alliance

'With wry wit and dark irony, Geraldine Mellet has crafted a novel that resonates with authenticity.' SHELLEY DAVIDOW, author of The Girl with the Violin