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01856aam a22003258i 4500 001 83B0EFDE7A1411E58AE277AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 150826r20152014nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a bl2015034567 020 $a 000813135X : HRD 020 $a 9780008131357 : HRD 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a PR6070.A79 $b S55 2015 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Taylor, Andrew, $d 1951 October 14- $e author. 245 14 $a The silent boy / $c Andrew Taylor. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper, $c 2015. 300 $a 424 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word? 651 0 $a France $x History $y Revolution, 1789-1799 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mute persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Refugee children $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Suspense fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): 775 08 $a Taylor, Andrew, 1951 October 14- $t Silent boy $d London : HarperCollins, 2014 $z 9780007506576 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151223020416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=83B0EFDE7A1411E58AE277AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search