Description

A story of love, loss and self-discovery set against a background of the industrial Midlands and the rural Shropshire borders.

Three generations of women are searching for the truth of relationships disrupted by a century of war.

When, in the winter of 1949, Katherine Quinton sets out on her personal journey away from the city of her childhood, Birmingham, she not only challenges the morality of her generation but becomes involved in the questions raised by other women’s past lives.

Through her love affair with Stephen Ross, an archaeologist, she becomes drawn into the contemporary world and past history of Ludlow. When she uncovers the hidden reality of the life of Mary Webb, with whom she feels a haunting affinity, she can come to terms with her own past and creativity.