Book description
Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving
nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought.
But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with objects
seemingly without meaning - three feathers, an exotic seashell, a
painting, a mirror, two prints, an address book, a map, a hat, a
rucksack and a necklace.
And while she's busy playing detective trying to find out who her
mother was, she finds out more about herself than she ever really
wanted to know. Secrets are discovered, truths uncovered, and
Catherine realises that maybe there was something more to her mother,
something that her familiy has kept from her.
How long a shadow can a dead woman cast?
Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed
novels, including
Have the Men Had Enough?,
Lady's Maid
,
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
,
Is There Anything You Want?, Over
and
Isa and May
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
