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Description for Silent Noon
Gripped by mounting horror at the discovery of secrets harboured by the isolated school community, Barney Holland personifies the struggle of a young peace-time generation finding its way out of the shadow of war. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846883149
SKU
V9781846883149
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Trilby Kent
Trilby Kent is the winner of the 2012 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her novel Stones for My Father published by Alma Books in 2011. Stones for My Father also won the Africana Children's Book of the Year award in 2012. Alma has also published her first novel Smoke Portrait in 2011.
Reviews for Silent Noon
"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, ... Read more