(Paperback)

In a small English town, everyone is silently struggling to be the person they think they should be. Theresa is determined to stay so busy she wont have time to feel guilty; But when Sheila, a widow, mother and grandmother, disappears from the town, their private lives start to collide and change ...

(Paperback)

It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her the chance to alter the course of her destiny - and to embark on a new life in South Africa.