Book description
Lavinia often reflected that it was a decidedly mixed blessing to have
married into the powerful Medworth family. To be a Medworth you had to
be successful, intellectual and tough. You also had to join in all the
tribal rituals - especially at Christmas. The whole family gathered at
the large and inconvenient Tudor mansion in Yorkshire for two weeks of
forced celebration: the Christmas play, the hunter trials, Midnight Mass
in the chapel, endless entertaining. Lavinia couldn't help wishing that
she might just spend time alone with Tom and their children. But they
would not let her. As a Medworth, Tom was both successful - he was an
ambitious government minister - and family minded. He was also
committed, as all the Medworths were, to hunting. Then he became a
target for a group of violent animal rights activists, and everything
changed. Lavinia began to find out things about Tom that she had never
known. She also started to learn about herself, about fear and about
love . . . Kate Hatfield, who also writes crime novels as Natasha
Cooper, is fascinated by relationships: how they work; why they go
wrong; how they change people's lives. Born in London, she worked in
publishing for ten years before becoming a writer. She now divides her
time between the city and the Somerset Levels.
