THE SILENT STARS GO BY: SALLY NICHOLLS
HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY ANDERSON PRESS 5th November 2020
Three years ago, Margot’s was turned upside down when her fiancée Harry, went missing in action on the Western Front. Worse she was left with a devastating secret which threatened to ruin her life and destroy the reputation of her family. As a respectable vicar’s daughter, Margot has to guard that secret with great care ever since, no matter how much pain it causes her.
Now it’s Christmas 1919, and Margot’s family is gathering back home in the vicarage for the first time since the end of the Great War. And miraculously Harry has returned, hoping to see Margot and rekindle their romance. Can Margot ever reveal the shocking truth to the only man she has ever loved?
My review
The Silent Stars Go By is a lovely story. My heart went out to Harry Ginger, when writes this lovely letter to Margot, thinking everything is his fault somehow, in reality it shows he really does love Margot deep down. But Margot is keeping a secret and one way or another she is going to have to face it, and I believe that she should tell Harry her secret.
Crowhurst Farm
Crowhurst
North Yorkshire
9th December 1949
Dear Margot,
I do not wish to be a milestone round your neck, and if you would rather have nothing more to do with me, I won’t be such an ass as to insist that you uphold your promise or anything beastly like that. But I think it only to polite to inform you that I shall be coming home for Christmas and we are likely in the unusual run of things to find ourselves somewhat in one another’s pockets.
We may no longer be lovers, but I would hate to think we were ever anything but friends. I cannot claim to understand why you chose to ignore my previous communications, but I trust that you have your reasons. I must say, I think you might have the decency to tell me what they are. If you have heard any ill of me, please allow me the chance to explain myself. Though I can’t imagine what the devil it is you might have heard.
I remain your most obedient etc ( truly, Margot, I do).
Harry Ginger
ABOUT AUTHOR SALLY NICHOLLS
Sally Nicholls grew in Stockton on-Tees, and after she left school she travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross Hosptial In Japan. Sally’s first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Costa Children’s Book Award, YA Book Prize and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. She lives in Oxford.
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