House of silence - Linda Gillard

Gwen Rowland is invited to spend Christmas at her boyfriend Alfie's stately family home. But soon after she arrives, she senses something isn't quite right. Alfie acts strangely toward his family, while his mother keeps to her room, unable to distinguish between past and present, fact and fiction. When Gwen discovers fragments of forgotten family letters sewn into an old patchwork quilt, she starts to piece together the jigsaw of the past and realises there's more to the family history than she's been told. It seems there are things people don't want her to know. And one of those people is Alfie...