Dimensions
111 x 177 x 25mm
Days after her mother dies of cancer in 1990, Josie Knight makes a startling discovery amongst her personal effects. Secreted within the clutter of the London house she will soon have to sell, lies a yellowing envelope in the folds of a treasured rocking chair. A gift that was never sent? A relic of a doomed romance? Rumours surrounding Josie's grandmother - her transformation from American southern belle to affluent English lady - are part of family folklore. The rocking chair was hers, brought over from Savannah to the sprawling house under the Sussex Downs where Josie spent the happiest moments of her childhood. Something else, however, has also been passed down through the generations. As Josie indulges her curiosity into her family's rich but often-troubled history, she realises she must act to prevent the dark pattern of her mother's and grandmother's lives forming once again in her own.
