Silence for the Dead

Simone St. James

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....”. In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private…