SILENT NOON
Book ID/图书代码： 00410313B59870
English Summary/英文概要： September 1953. Fourteen-year-old Barney Holland is promised a fresh start when he is offered a place at a boarding school on the remote North Sea island of Lindsey. Instead, he is shunned by his peers both for his status as a charity pupil and for being the replacement of a recently deceased student, the popular Cray. The arrival of Belinda Flood, a housemaster’s daughter stigmatized by her expulsion from another school, provides Barney with an unexpected ally. Both outsiders soon fall under the influence of charismatic senior pupil, Ivor Morrell, who reigns over the forbidden corners of the school: an abandoned fallout shelter and a haunted basement corridor. A gruesome find and the friendship with a local woman rumoured to have been a wartime collaborator draw the three into an increasingly dangerous web of personal and social shame. Gripped by mounting horror at his discovery of secrets harboured by the isolated school community, Barney personifies the struggle of a young peace-time generation finding its way out of the shadow of war. A shocking climax reveals a lurking threat more immediate than he’d imagined, adding even greater urgency to his desire to escape the island - and its haunted past - once and for all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
一個戰後少年擺脫陰影，走向光明的故事
1953年9月，14歲的巴尼•荷蘭進入一所寄宿學校，準備開始自己新的人生，可是一切並沒有想像的那麼好。作為一個受補助學生，他總是受到同齡人的嘲弄。何況，他頂替的正是剛剛死亡的學生，眾有耳聞的Cary！校長的女兒Belinda Flood也來到這所學校。她因為被另一所學校開除而名聲一直很差。她向巴尼伸出了橄欖枝，結成聯盟。其他人很快被“有魅力”的高年級學生Ivor Morrell吸引。他掌控了學校各種禁地：一個廢棄的炸彈塵埃避難所、一個鬧鬼的地下室同道。
這三個孩子被一個可怕的發現、與當地曾做過戰時叛徒的婦女之間的聯繫讓他們慢慢步入一個危險的境地，威脅著他們個人和社會名譽。在獲悉這所孤立學校的可怕秘密後，巴尼一直感到非常緊張恐懼。巴尼的故事正是戰後少年努力掙扎走出戰爭陰影的典型故事。高潮迭起正展現了潛藏的危機，這都是他不能預知的，讓他更想逃離這座島嶼和縈繞心頭的過去。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：A story of displacement, disinheritance – and the lingering past.
About the Author/作者介绍： Trilby Kent是2012年加拿大童書獎，已經出版了《Smoke Portrait》和兩本兒童書《Medina Hill》和《Stones for My Father》。Trilby在多倫多、邁阿密和倫敦都 生活過，在布魯塞爾工作過一年。她在牛津大學完成歷史系學習，在倫敦財經大學人類學院獲得了社會學碩士學位，隨後在Bonhams的古籍圖書部門工作，現在正在愛克賽特大學攻讀創意寫作博士學位。她目前住在倫敦。2010年，她入圍《衛報》國際新聞發展比賽決選。
Trilby Kent is the winner of the Young Adult Canadian Award for her novel Stones for My Father published by Alma Books in 2012. Alma has also published her first novel Smoke Portrait in 2011.
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