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Country Australia Publisher Heineman Media type Print Originally published 1961 Genre Crime Fiction | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1961 Pages 274 pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by The Shoes of the Fisherman Morris West books The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Tower of Babel, The World is Made of Glass: A, McCreary Moves In, The Clowns of God | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daughter of Silence (1961) is a crime novel by Australian author Morris West.
Contents
Plot outline
In mid-summer in a Tuscan village a twenty-four-year-old woman shoots the town's mayor dead in revenge for the death of her mother during the war. The subsequent trial brings out secrets both personal and political.
Critical reception
Joyce Halstead in The Australian Women's Weekly was impressed with the work: "Excellent writing in an attractive novel which uses all the gimmicks for modern reader success - an Italian setting, a court scene with a beautiful young woman on trial for murder, and intricately woven love affairs...The whole resolves itself fairly expectedly and tritely - but the intellectual arguments, convincing dialogue, emotional undertones, and competently wrought plot make it a very satisfying story."