OF SILENCE AND SLOW TIME

It's August 1914 in German occupied France. Twelve year old Amelie stumbles across an injured British soldier in the woods and throughout the first winter of the Great War her family keeps him hidden from the enemy. But the presence of Captain James Winter starts to create suspicion and resentment in the village when he embarks upon an affair with Amelie's sister and attracts the attention of another local girl, Magali Legrange. As James' activities come under close scrutiny, Amelie becomes an unwitting accomplice as she is increasingly caught in an intimacy with the Englishman which will both give her the means to speak and signal the end of her innocence.

Lyrical, compelling and achingly poignant, this is a story of first love, intrigue and betrayal.