Violet's War' is the first of two Sing to Silent Stones books which tell the tale of a single family. A young and headstrong Violet finds love outside her class, a love that is ended by The Great War, leaving her with an illegitimate son, which neither she, nor her family, are willing to publicly acknowledge. Consumed by guilt she throws herself into nursing and is caught up in the maelstrom of war, where she finds redemption and a new love. A tragic accident robs her of that relationship and desperate to create the life of domesticity that she has always craved she makes a terrible mistake and her life spirals into a hell of her own making...