The story of one woman's search for home and family details the abduction of an infant and revelation of a middle-aged woman who begins to remember her shadow-life as the daughter of a different mother. 10,000 first printing.
Not like the Oriana or the Castel Felice she’d seen in the brochures. No, the Australis was a peeling monster, a colossus of weeping rust and complaining steel; the gangways smelled of sea rot. When they’d pulled out of Southampton, the passengers had unspooled thousands of streamers, the frail s...
It was not the house, but the neighbours she objected to. Many of them were Romanists and she was anxious to emphasise the distinction between them. She never left the front door open, as was their habit, for through such an aperture the malevolence of tittle-tattle would march in and travel out....