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It is winter in London. Forty-one year old Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives an unexpected phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice she has not heard in twenty-five years - a voice which draws her back to a painful past, to when her best friend drowned and she was the only one who could have saved her.

Rose's father sounds older. But why did he want her to visit him? Why now?

Grief and guilt leave terrible shadows, but as this beautifully wrought story unfolds and the scene shifts from London to Sweden - and back in time to Eliza's school days - we learn that generosity, humour and friendship can smooth over and restore even the most broken lives, and that some secrets just can't be kept hidden… >But why does Rose's father want her to visit him? Why now? And why is he killing her with kindness when they both know that he blames her for what happened to his daughter?

Grief and guilt cast terrible shadows, but as this beautifully wrought story unfolds and the scene shifts from London to the fairy tale landscape of the Swedish countryside - and back in time to Eliza's school days - we learn that generosity, humour and friendship can smooth over and restore even the most broken lives, and that some secrets just can't be kept hidden...>