Beginner’s Pluck: 'When We Were Silent' author Fiona McPhillips

Fiona worked as a music journalist, then in sports journalism, and when her children were born, she wrote features

Fiona McPhillips' 'When We Were Silent' is tender, yet chilling, and ultimately devastating.

Fiona’s dad once found her, aged six, reading a book about jobbers in the stock market.

“I’d read everything else on the shelf.”