The Silent Stars Go By

Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar's daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported Missing in Action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only one solution she and her family could think of in order to keep that respectability. She gave up James, her baby son, to be adopted by her parents and brought up as her younger brother.

About the author

Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Nicholls, Nicholls Sally
• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2020
• EAN: 9781783449903
• ISBN: 978-1-78344-990-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Historical, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Adoption, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Pregnancy, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, c 1910 to c 1919, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Interest age: from c 12 years, Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories