When We Were Silent

by Fiona McPhillips · 2024

Lou Manson arrives at Highfield Manor, Dublin’s most elite private school, as a working‑class outsider with a single purpose: to expose the dark secret lurking behind its polished façade. The school's glittering corridors and immaculate grounds mask a web of privilege that will stop at nothing to protect its reputation. When Lou befriends the charismatic and affluent Shauna Power, her quest for truth becomes tangled with loyalty, and a shocking murder leaves her standing over a lifeless body. Thirty years later, a high‑profile lawsuit forces Lou back into the halls she once fled, demanding she confront the haunting events of the "Highfield Affair" and reveal a story she swore never to tell. A tense, atmospheric thriller that unravels the cost of vengeance and the lingering power of buried secrets.