Touch the Silence

The first in a new family saga from a well-loved Cornish author It is 1917, and the First World War is casting its dark shadow over the lives of the Harvey family of Ford Farm. One brother has been killed already, and Tristam is at the Front. Though newly engaged to pretty dairy-maid Emilia Rowse, a friend since childhood, younger brother Ben is desperate to be called to serve his country. But a horrific eye-injury causes him to be declared unfit, a blow from which young Ben will never recover. Tensions mount as he is forced to remain at the farm with his elder brother Alec, a man with closely-guarded secrets of his own...