A novel by Rosa Pendarves COMING
Pendrym Point falls silent in the foggiest week of the year. Sabotage, or neglect? Either answer is trouble — and the quiet boy who is a genius with engines makes his first appearance.
In The Silent Foghorn, Pendrym Point falls eerily quiet during the foggiest week of the year, and Polperran feels suddenly smaller, muffled and unsure. Is the silence the result of careless neglect, or has someone deliberately interfered? Rosa Pendarves gives the question a salt-air chill, letting the mystery gather in the mist while a quiet boy with an astonishing gift for engines steps into the story for the first time.
Readers aged 9–12 will enjoy a proper mystery with just enough peril to quicken the page-turning, without losing the comfort of a village they can trust. The writing has a strong read-aloud rhythm: fog, footsteps, questions, and the satisfying clank and tick of machinery. There is warmth as well as suspense, and gentle humour in the way Polperran’s practical folk face a problem no one can simply wish away.
As part of The Polperran Mysteries, The Silent Foghorn deepens the sense that every corner of the village has its own secrets, skills and loyalties. Pendrym Point becomes another memorable landmark in the shared Polperran world, while Doc’s first appearance as an engine-whisperer begins a thread readers can carry with them through the series. It is a mystery about listening carefully: to people, to places, and to what has gone strangely silent.