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Steadily the urge grew on me to write a book about a place that had not existed when I wrote The Four Last Things – this brave new world of ours where mobiles chatter and trill like birds, CCTV cameras perch on every corner, and people go googling on svelte laptops that no longer need to be attached to the rest of the world with wires.
Out of this came A Stain on the Silence. The novel starts from three very simple premises: what if a childless man in his forties discovers that he has a daughter, the result of an affair 25 years earlier? What if the daughter is pregnant? And what if she’s on the run for murder?
But though the setting is contemporary, the themes and dilemmas of the novel are as universal as love and death. It’s a book about children and parents, and especially about missing children – children who are lost; children who are stolen, children who lose themselves, and children who haunt the minds of those who do not have them.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Printing. Nice, unsold, unread, first British printing of this thriller mystery from award-winning author. Seller Inventory # 006352