A small dark quiet
Gold, Miranda2018
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March, 1945. The ravaged face of London will soon be painted with victory, but for Sylvie the private battle for peace is only just beginning. Revealing strength and small acts of kindness in the most unlikely places, 'A Small Dark Quiet' looks through the eyes of a mother as she finds the courage to face loss - both her own, and that of the orphan born in a concentration camp whom she and her husband, Gerald, adopt two years later. Haunted by the gaps in the orphan's history, Sylvie begins to draw him into parallel with her dead child. When she gives the orphan the stillborn child's name, Arthur, she unwittingly entangles him in a grief he will never be able to console. His name has been erased, his origins merely guessed at, but the trauma Arthur carries begins to release itself in nightmares, merging into the story he has been told about the dead child whose life he is expected to step into.
Main title:
A small dark quiet / Miranda Gold.
Author:
Gold, Miranda, author
Imprint:
London : Unbound Digital, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781912618828 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6107.O427
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2415421