In a field outside Bromsgrove two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages No one visits & they never speak to each other Until the day Zohra Dasgupta a young postwoman delivers an extraordinary letter
- from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered fifty years earlier So begins an intriguing tale is this woman an impostor? If she's not what did happen all those years ago? & why are the brothers such recluses? Then there's Zohra Once a bright outgoing teenager the only friend she will see from her schooldays is laidback Crispin who has roped her in to the restoration of an old railway line on his father's land For which as it happens they need some carriages With wry humour & a cast of characters as delightful as they are damaged Clare Morrall tells an engrossing story of past misdeeds & present reckoning which shows that for all the wrong turnings we might take sometimes it is possible to retrace our steps