The Silent Lady

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In 1955, a dishevelled woman appears at the office of solicitor Alexander Armstrong and is identified as Irene Baindor, who vanished twenty-six years earlier. Traumatised, nearly voiceless and with fragmented memories, she cannot explain where she has lived or why she abandoned a prosperous family.

Armstrong’s inquiry reconstructs a history of marital abuse, flight and the strangers who protected Irene when she could no longer protect herself. The search for truth forces her relatives to confront the life concealed beneath respectability and determines whether Irene can reclaim a name, a voice and a place in the world.