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Fiona McPhillips is an Irish journalist, author, and screenwriter. She is an editor at The Forge literary magazine and her own work has appeared in The Manchester Review, Hobart and Barren Magazine, among others. When We Were Silent, the runner-up for the 2021 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger, is her debut novel. Fiona lives in Dublin with her three kids, two cats, and a dog.

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When We Were Silent has been shortlisted for Crime Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards!

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“The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget.”
Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

“For years, I tried not to think about Highfield Manor. The pompous rise of its granite walls, the secrets hidden in its stone-cold shadows. The dark veil of cedars shrouding the school from the outside world. But still the memories fester in me, real as a disease.”
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“In the end, we're the ones who have to live with the stories we tell ourselves.”
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“For years, I tried not to think about Highfield Manor. The pompous rise of its granite walls, the secrets hidden in its stone-cold shadows. The dark veil of cedars shrouding the school from the outside world. But still the memories fester in me, real as a disease.”
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“The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget.”
Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

“A different time. The era of synth pop and mixtapes, hair gel and new wave. Of Prince and paramilitaries, Madonna and moving statues. Magdalene laundries, the Eighth Amendment, bodies as battlegrounds—pig slit and gaping. Different but the same. Absolution for the guilty but not for us.”
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“That was always the one thing Highfield
valued more than grades, more than silverware or celebrity alumni: silence.”
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“I'm not here for prestige. I'm here for revenge.”
Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

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