When novelist Victoria Norbury discovers and publishes her grandmother's diaries, she discovers the powerful--and sometime frightening--parallels between their lives and must choose between long ago and the present...
The death of the wealthy, eccentric Lady Rayner brings together her four, very different beneficiaries--her aggressive son, Bernard; her divorced daughter, Joanna; Mildred, a lifelong servant; and Bertie Fane, an old man with a dark secret...
All through Louise Lansdale's life fate threw challenges at her which she managed to overcome. A difficult marriage and an unfortunate period of motherhood had combined to turn her, in middle age, into a somewhat lonely and reserved, yet basically r...