num_pages: 551
description: Set in the 1840s in the Lancashire coalfields, this is the story of two women who love the same man. Heiress Nella Fielden sets her heart on Jonas Townley and marries him, but his heart belongs to Nella's protegee Leah, a lowly miner's daughter. Tragedy follows when Nella learns she has a rival.
language: English
title: The Silence of Strangers
titlecomplete: The Silence of Strangers
genres: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 168
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton