After the Silence: a twisty page-turner of deadly secrets and an unsolved murder investigation

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as their families and supporters. The core of our organization is a support group, message board, and chat room We encourage local and regional communities to produce Remembrance commemorations of their own. At the core of these events is the Act of Remembrance. Louise O’Neill has turned her hand to many different genres; young adult, contemporary fiction and now a psychological thriller. And I’m here for every one of them because I love the sharpness and brutal honesty in her writing.

Torres-Saillant, S. 2016. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Words of Junot Díaz. In Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination, ed. Monica Hanna, J. Hartford Vargas, R. Saldívar, 121. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Okay look. I think Louise O'Neill is excellent. Asking For It is one of my favourite books. But honestly, I'm not sure where she was going with this. Although this is being marketed as a murder mystery/psychological thriller, what makes it stand out is not the revelation (there are so few suspects, anyway, in a tiny island community that it's not hard to unravel) but the acute and genuinely disturbing portrait of domestic abuse and coercive control. After two brilliant forays into young adult novels, both well worth a read, O’Neill brought her unstinting criticism of patriarchy to her first adult novel Almost Love in the best and most scathing way possible. After the Silence is a more-than-worthy second adult novel. While both have passing similarities—depictions of emotional abuse, gaslighting, male partners treating women poorly—O’Neill looks at these issues from an entirely different angle. She forces us to confront not the darkest parts of relationships (particularly with men); rather she forces us to confront the greyest parts, the parts we seldom talk about because to admit they are present would be to admit our entire model of romance is broken.

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Díaz, J. 2012c. The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz. Interview by Paula M. L. Moya. 26 June. https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/paula-ml-moya-decolonial-love-interview-junot-d%C3%ADaz. Starting at 11am, the service will commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.

I really hate it when a premise to a book promises something so much more than the book itself actually offers. Such was the case with AFTER THE SILENCE by Louise O'Neill. What was meant to be about the ten year anniversary of the murder of Nessa Crowley ended up something far more discombobulated to the point of boring and uninteresting. sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, and molestation may cause different feelings to emerge. During Magnet, S., C. Lysandra Mason, and K. Trevener. 2014. Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Kindness. Feminist Teacher 25 (1): 1–22. Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, physical abuse, cheating, body dysmorphia, sexual abuse, recreational drug use, alcoholism, graphic sex scenes, murder, gaslighting, post-partum depression.García Peña, L. 2018. Facebook post. 6 May. https://www.facebook.com/lorgia/posts/10155537574447444. As a first foray into a new genre, After the Silence is a change in direction for the Cork writer, but one that still plays to her strengths. Our protagonist Keelin Kinsella has a troubled past, having fled an abusive husband with her young son Alan in tow. She remarried to the wealthy and charismatic Henry, son of a prominent hotelier. They have a daughter together and live comfortably well-off on the fictional, windswept island of Inisrun, off the Irish coast. However, Keelin is haunted by more than one event from the past. On a stormy night ten years prior, a much-loved local girl Nessa Crowley, one of the beautiful, smart and popular 'Crowley Girls’, was killed at a party in their house. The murder is unsolved, and the islanders presume either Henry or Keelin responsible, although nothing has ever been proven. But one of my biggest gripes in AFTER THE SILENCE is the prolific use of the Irish tongue. While I understand that the story is set in a part of Ireland where Irish is the primary spoken language, many readers are not proficient in such a language so for them it is completely foreign. Either there was the constant use of the native tongue or Keelin drifting off into fairyland, as she so often did. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was one of the many thousands who saw the poppies. Their presence inspired him to write the famous ‘In Flanders Fields’ poem.

Scarry, E. 1987. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Abuse and suffering are matters that Louise O'Neill is clearly passionate about, and she’s very good at writing them, so it follows that her new psychological thriller should return to familiar territory, although it's her first in the whodunnit thriller mode. Queries about the march past should be sent to the Royal British Legion at: [email protected]. Machado Sáez, E. 2018. Generation MFA: Neoliberalism and the Shifting Cultural Capital of US Latinx Writers. Latino Studies 16 (3): 361–383. I'm broken. This was heart wrenching. This is not just a murder mystery but an exploration of domestic abuse and violence towards women, and how society and the media treat women as a whole...which is not surprising considering Louise O'Neill's previous novels. I think this novel brilliantly examines how abusive relationships manifest differently, and how easy it is for anyone to become trapped in one, regardless of circumstance or knowledge of certain behaviours. After the Silence also touches upon why it is women in particular who read/consume stories about true crime and crime fiction, especially when the stories are also concerning women - and why is the media so drawn to a particular type of woman (young, white, slim, beautiful) when it comes to telling these stories. Please note that the unauthorised use of any drones (including quadcopters/helicopters) in this area and the roads surrounding Whitehall is strictly prohibited at all times.