A lost child...
On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace.

A terrible secret...
On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristcratic Mountrachet family.

A mysterious inheritance...
On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is her that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of the little girl lost.

A captivating and atmospheric story of secrets, family and memory from the international bestselling author Kate Morton.

Sent to jubby for the October 2016 SCBE.

Thank you very much Catsalive for sending me this book as part of The Southern Cross Book Exchange over on www.bookobsessed.com.

This title has been on my wishlist for some time.

Sigh.

Packing to move house, and I have to clear several bookshelves. There is no room for you in the new house.

So this book is going back out into the world again.

I'm afraid I've not read this one, but hope we'll cross paths another time.

Planning to leave on a bench.