Book description
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by
reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways,
seems a quiet, undemanding child.
Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking.
She grows up in comfort and security in Scotland, the only child of
doting parents. But there are, as she discovers, unanswered questions
about her past.
The two girls have only one thing in common: both were abandoned as
babies by their mothers. Different times, different circumstances, but
these two girls grow up sharing the same obsession. Each sets out to
stalk and then haunt her natural mother. Both mothers dread
disclosure; both daughters seek emotional compensation and,
ultimately, revenge.
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.
