Dimensions
128 x 18 x 198mm
This is the story of emigration and home, and of long-buried secrets - a story which many families will understand and respond to.
Claudia Carfax, a painter living in Vienna, receives an urgent cable asking her to return to the family home on Vancouver Island, where her elderly aunt is dying. In a cellar under the house, she comes across a tin box full of faded letters from the early years of the century. Examining them, a compelling story begins to surface through the veil of years, as fresh in its intimacy and hidden tragedy as on the days these passionate words were set down.
This extraordinary debut novel, an unforgettable evocation of a vanished past, grew out of the author's own experience, and the reader is left guessing at what is real and what is fiction.
