Book description
When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and
returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to
scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place
where she belongs.
But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as
those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so
often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the
Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the
eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to
slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from
hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel
Butler, a man who lived Â- and died Â- long before she herself was born.
Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her
sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she
really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she
feels so drawn towards.
As a former museum curator, Susanna Kearsley brings her own
passion for research and travel to bear in her books, weaving history
with modern-day intrigue in a way that, in the words of one reviewer,
'tells the story of the past and illuminates the present'. She won the
prestigious Catherine Cookson Fiction Award for her novel
Mariana, and was shortlisted for the UK's Romantic Novel of the
Year Award for Sophia's Secret.
www. susannakearsley. com
