Winter Bell

A cracked inscription. A dead expert. A village that has protected the same secret since 1947.Archivist Delia Spencer has spent five months cataloguing the ancient bells of Wickenford, and she has never doubted the tower's proudest claim: a bell cast in 1712, the finest of its kind for fifty miles. Then a visiting bell historian looks at the crown and says the one sentence no one in the parish wan...