The Silent Stars Go By, Sally Nicholls
The Silent Stars Go By, Sally Nicholls
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The Silent Stars Go By

Author: Sally Nicholls

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

A beautiful, bittersweet WWI romance lights up an English village at Christmas with harrowing secrets, love lost and found, and the breathtaking power of forgiveness.Vivid and achingly real, Sally Nicholls’s latest historical romance explores the fallout from an unexpected pregnancy during the First World War. It’s Christmastime, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar’s daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family’s reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot’s family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn’t dead. He’s alive and well, and looking for answers. Can their love survive the truth? Based on the author’s family history, this evocative and stirring exploration of the human and emotional side of war is young-adult historical fiction at its finest, written with the immediacy and understanding of the complexities of the human heart that are the hallmark of the author’s work.

About Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls is an award-winning author whose first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her books have been short-listed for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal. She lives in Oxford, England, with her family

About Elizabeth Knowelden

Elizabeth Knowelden is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator who has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As an actress, she trained in London at the Webber Douglas Academy where she received a Sir Laurence Olivier Commendation. Her acting credits include theater, musicals, and national tours in the United Kingdom. Also a film actress, she has participated in BAFTA’s Newcomers Program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

4+ As Christmas approaches in 1919, nineteen year old Margot boards a train home from Durham to Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales. She worries over the big secret she’s kept from Harry Singer who she becomes engaged to before he sets off to the Western Front. When Harry goes missing, presumed dead her......more

Goodreads review by Sara

ARC received in exchange for an honest review. The Silent Stars Go By is a beautiful YA historical story about Margot, and the baby she gave up when her fiancé Harry is declared missing in action during the First World War. Now Harry has returned for Christmas, a different man to the boy who went to......more

Goodreads review by Whispering

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com YA Historical Fiction The Silent Stars Go By is an elegant story of a young woman who has been through so much in her life. Set just after the First World War, Margot Allan fell pregnant by her fiancé Harry who was drafted to fight in the war. When Harry is......more

Goodreads review by Ivana - Diary of Difference

Wishlist | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Ko-fi The Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls is a beautifully written book. It takes you back to a 1919 Christmas setting and leaves your heart warm, days after you’ve finished it. Thank you to Kaleidoscopic Tours and Andersen Press, for sending m......more

Goodreads review by Quill&Queer

[ARC Provided by NetGalley, my review is unbiased] Wordpress Blog | Twitter | Pinterest 📗 This is such an important book, that attempts to show the attitudes that people had to unmarried mothers in the early 1900s. Margot's fiancee goes to war, and after she learns she is pregnant, receives a letter t......more

Quotes

“Bittersweet perfection.” The Guardian (UK)

“Sally Nicholls conjures another era with a miraculous lightness of touch that fills me with joy and envy. Her characters don’t just leap off the page; they grab you by the collar, demand your sympathy, and surprise you at every turn.” Frances Hardinge, author of The Lie Tree

“A gorgeous, poignant, unputdownable new Christmas classic.” Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks’ War

“A festive treat of a story about family, lost loves, and finding yourself again after tragedy.” Emma Carroll, author of In Darkling Wood

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