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The Silence of Water

By: Sharron Booth
Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
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Summary

When Fan's mum Agnes announces that the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father—a man they've never spoken of before now—Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town, living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand.

Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to Australia in 1861. As she listens to memories of his former life in England, Fan starts snooping around the house, riffling through Edwin's belongings in an attempt to fill the gaps in his stories.

But the secrets Fan uncovers will test the family's fragile bonds forever, and force Edwin into a final reckoning with the brutality of his past.
©2022 Sharron Booth (P)2022 Aurora Audio Books
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Fabulous Listen…Don’t miss this

Listened to this as couldn’t get hold of a paper copy
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Based on a true story which I enjoyed and it’s clear that the writer has done her research meticulously
I highly recommend this and am looking forward to seeing what Sharron Booth gives us next
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