The Silent Stars Go By

Sally Nicholls

Candlewick Press, Sep 20, 2022 - Young Adult Fiction - 240 pages

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.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 15
• Section 4: 19
• Section 5: 24
• Section 6: 27
• Section 7: 30
• Section 8: 56
• Section 9: 64
• Section 10: 67
• Section 11: 77
• Section 12: 86
• Section 13: 95
• Section 14: 98
• Section 15: 108
• Section 16: 117
• Section 17: 123
• Section 18: 126
• Section 19: 147
• Section 20: 155
• Section 21: 160
• Section 22: 164
• Section 23: 168
• Section 24: 174
• Section 25: 182
• Section 26: 191
• Section 27: 194
• Section 28: 197
• Section 29: 200
• Section 30: 208
• Section 31: 215
• Section 32: 220
• Section 33: 223
• Section 34: 225
• Section 35: 229
• Section 36: 231

About the author

Sally Nicholls is a renowned author whose first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and inspired a feature film. Her books have been short-listed for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal (twice), and have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Oxford, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Silent Stars Go By
• Author: Sally Nicholls
• Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2022
• ISBN: 1536227250, 9781536227253
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Young Adult Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Historical; Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Pregnancy