Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/01/2012
ISBN: 9780099570530
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/01/2012
ISBN: 9780099570530
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
A brilliant exploration of choice and consequence
Enthralling... readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Foster is celebrated and which she executes so well
An unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking... Forster is a fine storyteller
Intricate, romantic and full of suspense
An excellently funny, moving novel... a text for our times