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A Granite Silence

- a mesmerising historical novel about a notorious true crime case
Af: Nina Allan Engelsk Hardback

A Granite Silence

- a mesmerising historical novel about a notorious true crime case
Af: Nina Allan Engelsk Hardback
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A Granite Silence is an exploration - a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives with her mother and father.

Among this long, grey corridor of four-storey tenements, a daunting expanse of granite, working families are squashed together like pickled herrings in their narrow flats. Here are Helen''s neighbours: the Topps, the Josses, the Mitchells, the Gordons, the Donalds, the Coulls and the Hunts.

Returning home from school for her midday meal, Helen is sent by her mother Agnes to buy a loaf from the bakery at the end of the street. Agnes never sees her daughter alive again.

Nina Allan explores the aftermath of Helen''s disappearance, turning a probing eye to the close-knit neighbourhood - where everyone knows everyone, at least by sight - and with subtlety and sympathy, explores the intricate layers of truth and falsehood that can coexist in one moment of history.

Full of echoes, allusions and eerie diversions, A Granite Silence is an investigation into a notorious true crime case, but also a stylish, imaginative inquiry into who gets to tell a story, how it is told, and why.

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A Granite Silence is an exploration - a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives with her mother and father.

Among this long, grey corridor of four-storey tenements, a daunting expanse of granite, working families are squashed together like pickled herrings in their narrow flats. Here are Helen''s neighbours: the Topps, the Josses, the Mitchells, the Gordons, the Donalds, the Coulls and the Hunts.

Returning home from school for her midday meal, Helen is sent by her mother Agnes to buy a loaf from the bakery at the end of the street. Agnes never sees her daughter alive again.

Nina Allan explores the aftermath of Helen''s disappearance, turning a probing eye to the close-knit neighbourhood - where everyone knows everyone, at least by sight - and with subtlety and sympathy, explores the intricate layers of truth and falsehood that can coexist in one moment of history.

Full of echoes, allusions and eerie diversions, A Granite Silence is an investigation into a notorious true crime case, but also a stylish, imaginative inquiry into who gets to tell a story, how it is told, and why.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781529435573
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1529435579
Kategori: Aberdeen & Deeside
Udg. Dato: 10 apr 2025
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 165mm
Forlag: Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato: 10 apr 2025
Forfatter(e): Nina Allan
Forfatter(e) Nina Allan


Kategori Aberdeen & Deeside


ISBN-13 9781529435573


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 242mm


Højde 165mm


Udg. Dato 10 apr 2025


Oplagsdato 10 apr 2025


Forlag Quercus Publishing