Silent Noon

By: Trilby Kent

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Paperback | 20 March 2014 | Edition Number 1

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300 Pages

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19.8 x 12.8 x 2.54

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September 1953. Fourteen-year-old Barney Holland is promised a fresh start when he is offered a place at a boarding school on the remote North Sea island of Lindsey. Instead, he is shunned by his peers both for his status as a charity pupil and for being the replacement of a recently deceased student, the popular Cray.The arrival of Belinda Flood, a housemaster's daughter stigmatized by her expulsion from another school, provides Barney with an unexpected ally. Both outsiders soon fall under the influence of charismatic senior pupil, Ivor Morrell, who reigns over the forbidden corners of the school- an abandoned fallout shelter and a haunted basement corridor.
A gruesome find and the friendship with a local woman rumoured to have been a wartime collaborator draw the three into an increasingly dangerous web of personal and social shame. Gripped by mounting horror at his discovery of secrets harboured by the isolated school community, Barney personifies the struggle of a young peace-time generation finding its way out of the shadow of war. A shocking climax reveals a lurking threat more immediate than he'd imagined, adding even greater urgency to his desire to escape the island - and its haunted past - once and for all.

Industry Reviews

A sharp thoughtful novel full of troubling nostalgia and intriguing personal crises, this dark coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Trilby Kent is claustrophobic and compelling. * The Good Book Guide *
Echoes of wartime secrets, bigotry, island life, and the struggles of a society dealing with new challenges... all captured in a richly evocative and, at times, discomforting way. * Newbooks Magazine *
Highly recommend this well written, carefully researched and atmospheric book to anyone who enjoys character-led stories. * Historical Novels Society *

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