Publisher's Synopsis
"A novelist of the highest quality..." SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Be sure your sins will find you out... For three generations of Pilkingtons - and their equally rich neighbours - Tremity Cove on the Devon coast has been the perfect summer home. The middle generation, particularly the successful trio of Pilkington brothers, their wives and mother, have made a hallowed tradition of the summer holiday, giving way to the unbounded freedom of sand dunes and the sea. Then onto the scene - and into a shocking discovery - stumbles Desmond: immature, mother's boy, solitary birdwatcher, catalyst. Desmond's discovery involves the police, and an enforced stay at Tremity Cove uncovers long-past events, sins, misunderstandings and false assumptions, which bring about the final, scandalous, tragedy...
