A Time for Silence

While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, a young woman's indiscretion leads to a seething viper's nest of blackmail and murder

In 1912, with war looming on the horizon, thirteen-year-old Lucinda Greenham is sent to an exclusive boarding school in Belgium. Her joy in sharing this adventure with her best friend, Annabelinda, is cut short when Annabelinda has a clandestine affair leading to pregnancy. Annabelinda's family arranges a "rest cure" and when the girl returns to school,...