Silent Duchess
- author
- Dacia Maraini
- Narrator
- May Ballingall
- Length
- 12 hours
- Publisher
- Calibre Audio
- Catalogue #
- 3760
- Categories
- Contemporary FictionHistorical Fiction
- Reviews
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This novel tells the story of five generations of the Ucria family seen through the eyes of deaf-mute Duchess Mariana. Set apat by her disability and married at 13 to her uncle, she tries to find fulfilment in a society where a woman’s lot is either marriage and childbirth or life behind the walls of a convent.
