Silence under a stone
From her bed in a nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on the time, long ago, when the second greatest joy in her life was her newborn son, James; only her God had a greater claim to her love. It is the 1920s, in the shadowlands south of the Irish border. Harriet and her husband, Thomas, a cold and sober man who is almost twice her age, are respected members of their strict Presbyterian congregation; indeed, Thomas has just been made an elder....
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