TY - BOOK AU - Cookson,Catherine TI - The Mallen girl T2 - Mallen family SN - 9780750546973 PY - 2018/// CY - Long Preston [England] PB - Magna KW - Mallen family (Fictitious characters) KW - Fiction KW - Deaf women KW - Northumberland (England) KW - Domestic fiction KW - Large type books N2 - Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming deaf. Yet living in an almost silent world protected her from what could be a worse affliction - to know the truth of her own origins. Barbara had another protector in Anna Brigmore who knew that truth, and was haunted by the thought it must one day be revealed to this girl she cherished like her own child. And among the surrounding hills and valleys of Northumberland, it was a long-relished scandal ER -