A couple of books bought secondhand from a village jumble sale; in the front, a name - Johnnie Bearsden - scrawled in a childish hand. This is all it takes for old wounds to open and rumours to begin swirling again. Who is the father of seven-year-old Izzy Haddon - her mother, Jess, has never revealed the secret. Now Johnnie is coming back to the village with his American wife and children. Everyone has always assumed that he is Izzy's father, but Jess maintains her resolute silence and gets on with what she does best - riding racehorses in point-to-points. Jess's mother, who looks after her little granddaughter Izzy, and loves her with a passion, rightly suspects that things cannot long go on as they are. And when the story breaks, there will surely be terrible consequences.
- ISBN10 0755328558
- ISBN13 9780755328550
- Publish Date 2 January 2006 (first published 2 May 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 October 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Review
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 448
- Language English