Publisher's Synopsis
It's 1946 and 17-year-old Laura Trelling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home. Then she meets Paul Lovell - a chance encounter that will bring her a new life in pre-apartheid South Africa. Three years earlier, 16-year-old Gay Gibson is no less desperate to escape England When their paths cross, they find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences...
