“ Aline Templeton has asserted her rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. First published 1996 by Constable and Company Ltd. This edition published by Endeavour Press Ltd in 2014. For Philip and Clare with much love Table of Contents Prologue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Extract from Night and Silence by Aline Templeton Prologue Christmas 1967 The huge depression that settled down over Euro...pe brought with it snow – soft, wet, dangerous stuff that clung like a damp sheet as it spread itself down into Northern Italy, over the Alps and Switzerland, Austria, France, then at last across the Channel into Britain on Christmas Eve. But the man who stood bleakly at the upstairs window of the drawing room of the big house was not considering the prospect of a white Christmas. Giles stared unseeing into the snow-flecked darkness, the lines about his mouth taut with suffering.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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