Publisher's Synopsis
As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolours. But Mary died at the age of 21, and when Julie Myerson comes across this album, she is haunted by the barely-lived life. And most of all, she is reminded of her own child. Because only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their son out of the family home. Honest and often upsetting, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family? And how is a mother to cope when love is not enough to save her child?
