A Portrait of 1950s Scandal Set in an Elite Girls’ Boarding School

Secrets, friendships, scandals and murder pervade a 1950s elite girls’ boarding school in the stunning debut novel Silent Cry by Julie Bigg Veazey.

Dover, NH (PRWEB) September 17, 2006 -- In Silent Cry, the gripping novel by Julie Bigg Veazey, disgraced young girl Nancy Walden enters an elite boarding school during the repressive 1950s. Can she find self-acceptance and forgiveness or will the secrets, shocks and murder at the school ruin her life forever?

Welcome to the 1950s and Winthrop Academy, a boarding school run by a puritanical headmistress, where Nancy Walden has been sent away in disgrace. Amidst an atmosphere of sexual longing, uneasy alliances and terrifying events, she tries to find friends, love, and establish her own identity. Silent Cry is the heart-wrenching story of Nancy and “the corridor girls”— teenagers sent away for behavior modification who find their lives changed in ways they can’t imagine. One roommate enters into a clandestine love affair which has shocking consequences. Nancy’s best friend Heather yearns for her father’s love and acceptance, and finds solace in her closeness with Nancy, a relationship that the housemother is determined to tear apart. Amidst this repressive atmosphere, lurks a creepy caretaker with a terrible secret of his own.

An alumnus of private girls’ schools herself, debut author Julie Bigg Veazey has created a pitch-perfect and richly atmospheric portrait of the 1950s and teenage angst Silent Cry is the stunning story of a young girl discovering that her life is of value to herself and others.

For more information or to request a review copy, please contact the author. Silent Cry is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide, or you can visit the author’s website: www.juliebiggveazey.com.

About the Author
Julie Bigg Veazey attended private girls’ schools in New England from seventh grade through college. Active in education for thirty-five years, she is a member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and participates in the Skimmilk Farm writer’s workshop. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Yankee Magazine, Down East Magazine, Compass Rose, and other literary publications. She now divides her time between New Hampshire and the Dominican Republic

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