”A tantalising mystery...beguiling & richly suggestive.” (Metro). Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding & the girl slipped into the trees
- never to be seen again. Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance: that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As Jane pieces together moments in history, forgotten stories emerge
- of sibling jealousy, illicit affairs, & tragic death...” Strange & absorbing...I relished this book.” (Penelope Lively, The New York Times Book Review). ” Sensitive, melancholy, sharply observant. A work of great power.” (Guardian). ” Ambitious, inticate...cleverly innovates while tipping a nod to classic Gothic tropes: dynastic rivalries, crumbling country houses, madhouses & vanished girls.” (National Post (Canada)). ”A brilliant work of humanity & imagination, artful & breathtakingly beautiful. It will continue to haunt long after you have finished reading.” (Helen Humphreys, author of Nocturne). ” Powerful, thought-provoking, haunting & haunted... Reminiscent of A S Byatt`s Possession, it forces you to look at the world
- the people around you, the objects they hold dear
- in a different light.” (Globe & Mail (Canada)).