Fiction: Nina Allan’s Granite Silence

24 April 2025, The Tablet

One day in 1934, eight-year-old Helen Priestly was despatched by her mother to buy a loaf of bread from the Co-Op a hundred yards down the street. She never came home.

A Granite Silence
NINA ALLAN
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