When We Were Silent
Fiona McPhillips
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
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· 10 ratings · 308 pages · Published: 02 May 2024
Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin’s most exclusive private school. Behind its granite walls are high-arched alcoves, an oak-lined library ... and the dark, festering secret Lou has come to expose.
Lou’s working-class background marks her as an outsider, until she is befriended by some of her beautiful and wealthy classmates. But her attempts to reveal the truth about Highfield are met with disaster – and a dead body.
Thirty years later, Lou gets a shocking phone call. A high-profile lawyer is bringing a case against the school, and he needs Lou to testify. Lou will have to confront her past and discover, for once and for all, what really happened at Highfield. Powerful and compelling, When We Were Silent is an unputdownable, thrilling story of exploitation, privilege, and retribution.
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