Author: Joanna Briscoe

Cecilia and her family moved to the moors as a child. Her life wasn’t dysfunctional but it was a bit unconventional with hippies renting the out-buildings, people drifting in and out and an artistic father who never really brought in any money. Her mother taught at a progressive school where she started a relationship with the wife of one of the teachers, James. Cecilia, although only eighteen, fell in love with James and they had a brief relationship that results in a child. Cecilia’s mother arranged a private adoption and James never knew of the child.

Twenty years later Cecilia, her husband and three children have moved back to her childhood home to take care of her mother. Cecelia has never given up hope of finding her child but her mother refuses to tell her anything. Cecilia is worried when she learns that James is still teaching in the area and his wife is her daughter’s favourite teacher.

How will it end? Up to the last fifty pages I had no clue, but all is sorted out in the end.

Goodreads Rating * * * *