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The silence of ghosts
- Title
- The silence of ghosts / Jonathan Aycliffe.
- Author
- Aycliffe, Jonathan, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Night Shade Books, 2015.
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-4799 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 189 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner, and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family estate on the shores of Ullswater is an old, much-neglected place that doesn't seem to promise much in the way of happiness or recovery. Something more than a friendship begins to flourish between Dominic and his nurse Rose in the late autumn of that English countryside, as he struggles to come to terms with his new life as an amputee. Another thing that seems to be flourishing is Octavia's hearing. As winter descends, sinister forces seem to be materializing around Octavia, who is hearing voices of children. After seeing things that no one else can see and hearing things that no one else can hear, Octavia is afflicted with a sickness that cannot be explained. With Octavia's help, Dominic sets out to find the truth behind the voices that have haunted his sister. In doing so, he uncovers an even older, darker evil that threatens not only Octavia, but Rose and himself.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Ghost stories.
- Horror fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-4799
- ISBN
- 9781597805544
- 1597805548
- OCLC
- 902669447
- Author
- Aycliffe, Jonathan, 1949-
- Title
- The silence of ghosts / Jonathan Aycliffe.
- Publisher
- New York : Night Shade Books, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Edition
- First Night Shade Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-4799