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The Silence of Herondale

Joan Aiken (1964)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads3.59

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

MurderViolenceIsolation

Hero archetypes

Mysterious Hero

Protagonist archetypes

Fish out of Water

Synopsis

Deborah Lindsay sought peace and security when she accepted the post of governess to a teenage girl. Instead she found terror and murder... Isolated in the Gilmartin ancestral home in Herondale, Deborah and young Carreen were left to face a nameless, unseen danger lurking in the frozen village, where only the flick of a curtain at a window or some random footprints in the snow, showed that it was inhabited at all. Alone in a house that had known violence, Deborah turned to Carreen's cousin Jeremy, as attractive as he was cynical and mysterious. But was he really a friend, or was he the enemy? In spite of Jeremy - or because of him? - Deborah found herself fighting for her life in an affair so bizarre as to shatter the silence of Herondale forever.

Tags

Gothic MysteryHistorical FictionSuspense