Book description
Beyond high iron gates fastened shut with a length of chain, lies the
stark, beautiful Trawbawn. Here, haunted by a dark, mysterious past and
largely ignored by the people of nearby Skibbereen, lives the frail
Lydia Beauchamp. But old Ma Beauchamp's private existence is interrupted
when a stranger arrives - a young man called Adam who wanders into the
vast grounds of Trawbawn and becomes one of Lydia's most welcome
contacts with the outside world. When Lydia sets her new confidante a
challenge, he eagerly accepts - Adam must travel to Dublin to find her
estranged daughter. But it is a task tainted by an air of menace. For
what terrible past has driven a daughter from her mother? And what true
motive lies behind Adam's generous act? Soon the unlikely friends are
entwined in a deadly game, and a pursuit born of an old lady's desire
for peace mutates into a terrible, relentless need for revenge . . .
Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand and has lived most of her adult
life in Ireland. She has had a varied career - artist’s model,
typesetter, freelance journalist, radio and television producer - before
returning to write fiction. This is her fifth novel, following
Mary, Mary
, The Courtship Gift
, Eager to Please
and The Guilty Heart
. Julie lives outside Dublin, by the sea, with her family.
