The Mallen Girl (The Mallen Trilogy)

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful. But as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming more and more deaf. Yet, living in an almost silent world, Barbara was protected from the knowledge which might otherwise have destroyed her – the secret of her own parentage.
But there was one who knew the secret – her governess, Anna Brigmore, who was haunted by this knowledge, and by the thought that it must one day be revealed to the girl she cherished as her own daughter.
The Mallen Girl is the sequel to The Mallen Streak and the second novel in the compelling trilogy which follows the fate of the Mallens through succeeding generations.