Publisher's Synopsis
Merham is a well-ordered 1950s seaside town: the kind of town where everyone knows their place (and those who don't are promptly put in it). Lottie Swift, an evacuee who has grown up with the Holden family, loves Merham while the Holdens' daughter Celia chafes against the constraints of the town. When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, an Art Deco house on the seafront, the girls are drawn to it, with tragic consequences. Fifty years later, Arcadia is returning to life, and prompting more than one person to ask: can you ever really leave the past behind?
