A single phone call from halfway across the world is all it takes to bring her home . . . ‘Ellie, something bad has happened.’
Desperate to escape her ‘kid from the scrapyard’ reputation, Ellie Rook has forged a new life for herself abroad, but tragedy strikes when her mother, Imelda, falls from a notorious waterfall.
Here, according to local legend, the warrior queen Finella jumped to her death after killing a king. In the wake of her mother’s disappearance, Ellie is forced to confront some disturbing truths about the family she left behind and the woman she has become.
Can a long-dead queen hold the key to Ellie’s survival? And how far will she go to right a wrong?
Featured on the Guardian’s ‘NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019’
(https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)
- ISBN13 9781846974823
- Publish Date 11 July 2019
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English