The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence is the first of a trilogy in which award-winning historian Carrie Howse traces her family history, from her great-grandparents in the East End of London in the late 19th century, to her own post-war childhood in an Essex village.

In compelling detail, she describes her daily life, in the shadow of the inexorable spread of a New Town which gradually destroyed the long-established rural community.