Book description
Nest and Mina still live at Ottercombe, their beautiful old rambling
childhood home in the depths of Devon. They came to the house before
the war, when as small children they played with their sisters and
brothers in the gardens and the woods and the nearby beach while their
mother read them stories and their father visited at weekends. It was,
in retrospect, an idyllic time, when tragedy seemed far distant. Now
they welcome their children and grandchildren , and especially young
Lyddie, their niece, who lives in Cornwall with her handsome husband
Liam.
But when their sister Georgie, now somewhat frail and forgetful,
comes to stay with them, aspects of their past start to revisit them.
For Georgie knows all their secrets, secrets which she wants to share...
Marcia Willett's early life was devoted to the ballet, but her dreams
of becoming a ballerina ended when she grew out of the classical
proportions then required. She had always loved books, and a family
crisis made her take up a new career as a novelist - a decision she has
never regretted. She lives in a beautiful and wild part of Devon with
her husband, where she loves to be visited by her son and his young
family.
