The Silence in the Garden Kevin Powers passionate abolitionist Tad Archer

passionate abolitionist Tad Archer

Along with his closest friends

more shocking than Nick could ever have imagined

In this deeply personal memoir

In July 1942

The Silence in the Garden Kevin Powers passionate abolitionist Tad ArcherFamily secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish family In the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, the daughter of an impecunious clergyman, arrives at Carriglas, an island off the coast of Cork, to act as governess for her distant cousins. It's a magical time in a magical place. But when she comes back almost thirty years later, after the First World War and the Irish Civil War have taken their toll, she discovers that there were things