Did you love The Quietness by Alison Rattle? Now you can explore the real facts behind the fiction. This iBook dives into the history that inspired The Quietness and takes you behind the scenes of Alison's writing process. We have gathered primary source documents, images and interviews with experts that are all designed to help you get a better sense of what life was like for Victorian society. You can investigate this fascinating period of British history through the iBook's four main sections: Women; Children; Medicine and Crime & Punishment. There is also a 'Behind the Scenes' section which allows you to enter the world of Alison's writing process, and take a look at how we created the cover for the book. This iBook contains: 19 videos; 6 clickable features, including maps and a Victorian medicine chest; 4 Victorian newspaper clippings detailing famous 'baby farming' cases; discussion questions; a 'costermonger' vocabulary quiz; and, an exclusive look at Alison's next project. About The Quietness: when fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in.
Initially thrilled at being taken on as a maid for the seemingly respectable Waters sisters, Queenie comes to realise that something is very wrong with the dozens of strangely silent babies being 'adopted' into the household. Meanwhile, lonely and unloved sixteen-year-old Ellen is delighted when her handsome and charming young cousin Jacob is sent to live with her family. She thinks she has finally found a man to fall in love with and rely on, but when Jacob cruelly betrays her she finds herself once again at the mercy of her cold-hearted father. Soon the girls' lives become irrevocably entwined in this tension-filled drama. The Quietness is a novel of friendship and trust in the darkest of settings.
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Alison grew up in Liverpool, and now lives in a medieval house in Somerset with her three teenage children, her partner - a carpenter - an extremely naughty Jack Russell and a ghost cat. She has co-authored a number of non-fiction titles on subjects as diverse as growing old, mad monarchs, how to boil a flamingo, the history of America and the biography of a
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