Whispers in the Glen

<p><strong>From the author of <em>Lady’s Rock, The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange </em>and <em>The Green Lady,</em> a tale of the sisterhood, heartbreak and resilience of the Scottish women on the World War II home front</strong></p><p><strong>Clova, Scotland, 1942. </strong>The midst of the Second World War. Sisters Nell and Effie Anderson live together in the Old Schoolhouse. Effie is a teacher, while Nell works as a postwoman, delivering news – often of the worst – from the frontline to her neighbours. Though they love and care for one another, there are unspoken tensions and mysteries that put distance between them.</p><p>Then, a plane carrying Canadian and British soldiers crashes over their village, and the only surviving soldier stumbles up to their front door. In his pocket is a photo that will set in motion a chain of events threatening to uncover their families’ generations-old secrets.</p><p>Told across a dual timeline of Effie and Nell’s adult years through World War II and their adolescence during World War I,<em> Whispers in the Glen </em>is a novel about secrets, lies – and the dangers of keeping them hidden.</p>