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When Lucy Cardwell, a photographer, mourns her troubled father Tom, she sifts through his papers and finds evidence that he had been researching an uncle she never knew existed. Driven by curiosity, Lucy travels to Carlyon Manor, her father’s childhood home in Cornwall, where she meets an elderly woman who shares an extraordinary tale of growing up in the 1930s. The woman recounts how the families living there were swept up in the looming catastrophe of war, and how the events and their consequences have rippled down through subsequent generations. Lucy’s investigation uncovers hidden family bonds and a legacy of untold stories that reshape her understanding of her own life.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Rachel Hore
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