Publisher's Synopsis
'Of Silence and Slow Time is a very good read, full of emotional shocks and tremors, an ill-fated love story packed with suspense and intrigue, set against the vivid backdrop of a small French village during the First world War.' KATE PULLINGER August 1914, German Occupied France. When twelve-year-old Amelie stumbles across an injured British soldier in the woods, her family keeps him hidden from the enemy. But the presence of Captain James Winter starts to create suspicion and resentment in the village when he embarks upon an affair with Amelie's sister and attracts the attention of another local girl. As James's activities come under close scrutiny, Amelie becomes an unwitting accomplice. In early 1915, James disappears. Seventeen years later his son comes to the village to find out what happened to his father. Now the secrets of the past look certain to come out...
