The respectable facade of the Donaldson family in provincial Cheshire through the years following the Second World War is just that - a facade. The parents married for the wrong reasons - he because she was perfect for his needs; she to escape her family, and because there was a child on the way. He has another son, not his wife's; she has a daughter, not her husband's and these two children become very close as they grow up together. When it matters deeply the parents lie to their children: but perhaps they do not know the whole truth themselves. The courses of all their lives are irreparably changed as death and tragedy flow from those lies.
- ISBN10 1848768818
- ISBN13 9781848768819
- Publish Date 5 February 2011 (first published 5 April 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Troubador Publishing
- Imprint Matador
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 304
- Language English