The quietness
By: Alison Rattle
Publisher: Hot Key; Hot Key Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781471401015; 9781471401022
Subjects: Betrayal; Juvenile fiction; Good and evil; Friendship; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: Fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London and becomes a maid for the respectable Waters sisters but soon realises that something is very wrong with the dozens of silent babies being 'adopted' into the household. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Ellen falls in love with her cousin Jacob, but when he betrays her, she is once again at the mercy of her cold-hearted father.