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The Silent Boy

Andrew Taylor

3.76/5 (646 ratings)

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From the No. 1 bestselling author of The American Boy comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution.

Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 448 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: HarperFiction

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0007506600

ISBN13:: 9780007506606

kindle Asin:: B00R0RGSK2

The Silent Boy

Andrew Taylor

3.76/5 (646 ratings)

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From the No. 1 bestselling author of The American Boy comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution.

Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 448 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:: HarperFiction

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0007506600

ISBN13:: 9780007506606

kindle Asin:: B00R0RGSK2

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