Daughter of Silence

Daughter of Silence
Author Morris West
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Crime fiction
Publisher Heineman
Publication date
1961
Media type Print
Pages 274 pp
Preceded by The Naked Country
Followed by The Shoes of the Fisherman

Daughter of Silence (1961) is a crime novel by Australian author Morris West.[1]

Plot outline

In mid-summer in a Tuscan village a twenty-four-year-old woman shoots the town's mayor dead in revenge for the death of her mother during the war. The subsequent trial brings out secrets both personal and political.

Critical reception

Joyce Halstead in The Australian Women's Weekly was impressed with the work: "Excellent writing in an attractive novel which uses all the gimmicks for modern reader success - an Italian setting, a court scene with a beautiful young woman on trial for murder, and intricately woven love affairs...The whole resolves itself fairly expectedly and tritely - but the intellectual arguments, convincing dialogue, emotional undertones, and competently wrought plot make it a very satisfying story."[2]

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