Review: An enjoyable, well written all around good read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2011
House of Silence has a good mix of mystery, romance and entertaining characters.  Linda Gillard has created a well rounded heroine and enticing, intriguing men who resonate long after the last page is turned.  Gwen, an intelligent and engaging young woman with a very bruised heart, goes with her actor boyfriend to his family home at Christmas; a house full of secrets and lies.  As with all of Linda Gillard's books, I was pulled right into the well crafted and compelling world held within this book.What is more fun than an English country house where the inhabitants make a reader wish to be invited to visit there?  One of my favorite lines is from the youngest sister, Hattie, a slightly left of center kind of person, who blurts out things most people wish they could say:"She was more interested in her made-up people than us."  All reading aficionados will recognize that sentiment!This story has great dialogs, fascinating characters, lyrically drawn descriptions of the landscape and a compelling plot seasoned with humor as well as the vagaries of life.