Publisher's Synopsis
Grace grew up in the shadow of her widowed mother and her superstitious, overbearing neighbours in the remote town of Preacher's Bay, Northern Ireland. One summer evening, a stranger knocks on their door, desperately seeking refuge. As Grace helps to nurse him back to health, she experiences at last the love that she has so innocently yet dementedly craved. Now, two decades later, Grace thinks back to her childhood and that steamy summer of 1976. And finally, the truth behind her lifelong reclusiveness, her relationship with her mother, and her first and only love, is revealed.
