Publisher's Synopsis
When she discovers that her aunt is critically ill in Canada, Sadie, a reclusive young academic living in a quite Scottish seaside town, decides to research her family's past and uncovers the secret that changed her mother's life forever. And just as Sadie begins to examine her own isolated life, she must now also face the circumstances surrounding her grandmother's mysterious disappearance at a family picnic in Toronto in 1973 and come to terms with what may be the key to her own future happiness. Crossing three generations and bridging two continents, 'The Picnic' is a tender, and at times, unsettling novel.
