(Paperback)

In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions.

(Paperback)

In 1958, in a small Devon village, two children are drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are overcome with grief. Thirty years later, Anna comes to the village hoping to start afresh - and, without telling anyone she is pregnant, goes to live with Isabel. But the baby's arrival causes powerful feelings of loss and heartbreak to surface.