Silent Cry
Julie Bigg Veazey's Silent Cry is an intimate,
coming-of-age novel set in an elite girls’ boarding school in
the 1950s, rich in psychological insights, compelling
characters, and gothic elements . …a moving story of strength in
the face of shattering life-changing events.
Synopsis
In disgrace, Nancy Walden arrives from New York
mid-year at an exclusive girls’ boarding school near New Haven,
run by a puritanical headmistress. At the mercy of the predatory
and fanatical house mother who rules the corridor where Nancy
lives with five other seniors, Nancy experiences a confusing
world of shifting alliances and devastating events. Her
roommate’s secret love affair, lurking danger and finally a
murder, lead to the collapse of Winthrop Academy. A friendship
she never thought would be hers helps Nancy transcend tragedy
and recognize that her life is of value to herself and others.
Written with touches of humor, Silent Cry illuminates the
repressive conventions of the 1950s.
Reader’s Comment
“Silent Cry pulled me headlong into the hothouse
atmosphere of a girls’ boarding school in the late 1950s, where
exterior decorum encases lives that are anything but calm. Pain,
insecurity, longing, and several kinds of love build to a breaking
point as the story unfolds. Julie Bigg Veazey has created characters
worth caring about and has entwined them in a plot that sizzles.”
--Elizabeth Knies, author of White Peonies
Note
Although Julie Bigg Veazey attended all-girls’ boarding schools in
the 1950s, the decade in which this mainstream, memoir-driven story
is set, Silent Cry is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or
are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Silent Cry
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Silent Cry