Publisher's Synopsis
Sisters Alice and Natalie were once close, but adolescence is wrenching them apart. Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds; Natalie is headstrong, manipulative - and beautiful. On their lakeside family holiday, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber. But Natalie seems unmoved, tolerating sittings for a family portrait with surprising indifference. By the end of the summer, three lives are shattered. Decades later, Thomas, now a world-renowned artist, reveals the existence of a portrait of himself with Alice and Natalie from that fateful summer. The sisters themselves have disappeared. And Thomas is torn between taking their secrets to the grave, or using the painting to resurrect the past before it closes up on all of them for good...
