On a crystal clear Mediterranean day Briony Mc Allister sits playing with her four-year-old daughter Katie while she waits for her mother Valerie to join them. Valerie has recently moved to a picturesque town in southern Spain to finally leave behind her turbulent past & find a peace that has always eluded her. Briony has no idea that in a few moments' time her relationship with her mother will change irrevocably. As Katie plays Briony pulls from her bag an old photo album found in a box in her mother's new home. As she begins to study the faded photos a letter falls to the ground. It is addressed to her. My Darling Briony it begins. As Briony reads the words with mounting shock realisation dawns. Her mother lied to her about what happened with her beloved grandmother Tessa all those years ago
- & denied Briony that most precious of relationships the type of relationship Valerie now enjoys with Katie. The lives of three generations of women are set to change forever as the past is revisited & the truth unfolds through the undelivered letters Tessa wrote to Briony over the years. Secrets lies betrayals & sacrifices
- the complex bonds between mothers daughters & granddaughters are intricately explored as Patricia Scanlan takes us into the hearts & homes of a family at war.