Emily is happy with her life just as it is.
She loves her career as a midwife, & enjoys living on her own
- but
A moving & intensely felt examination of the lengths to which we will go to seek protection & security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family. Dido, the nine-year-old heroine & emotional centre of Patrick Gale