'Nan was the keeper of our secrets. She spent her life trying to hold the darkness inside herself, trying to protect us all from the things she knew, but secrets have a way of passing down from one generation to the next, growing and deepening and poisoning until eventually they erupt... ' Storm Cizekova grows up believing that her mother, Kita, died when she was born. She was raised instead by her beloved grandmother in the Malvern Hills, north of London. The story begins with Storm, now 28, receiving the worst news of her life - Nan is dead. Storm then discovers a shocking photo: a picture of herself as a two-year-old in her mother's arms. She also discovers a battered old diary that describes the chaotic last days of Kita's life in Australia with her toddler daughter and a man no one seems able to identify. These discoveries become the catalyst for both a physical journey, which takes Storm from the snow-covered Malvern Hills to the rich red heart of Central Australia, and an inner journey of self-discovery. Retracing her mother's footsteps through the harsh beauty of the outback in a battered yellow kombi van, Storm finds her voice as an artist, the strength to confront the shocking truths about her family history, and the courage to love again without fear.
