Udgivet af Harper Collins Publishers U.K. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for todays world - sure to delight fans of. What follows is a tale of knights and dragons, of bards, legends and dashing strangers with hidden secrets.
With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves. Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. Editions for The Story of Silence: 0008352682 (Hardcover published in 2020), (Kindle Edition published in 2020), 0008352720 (Paperback published in 2021). Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador – Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall – he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Alex has taught high school English for over a decade and during this time earned an MFA in writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. Born and raised in western Maine, Alex left his home state to attend Phillips Exeter Academy and went on from there to earn degrees from Harvard and Brown, where he studied Ancient Judaism. A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns.
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