Eithne is the keeper of secrets in her family. When her sister Beatrice disappeared from her home in the dark woods of Meath, it was thirteen-year-old Eithne who uncovered the forlorn evidence of her life: a string of pearls, a pink beret, a compact and her beloved sketchbook. Their mother Sarah was so grief-stricken that she did not speak for five years, and their father Joe sank further into drink-filled rage. Now an adult, Eithne is an artist, and tries to remember her sister in her sketches of the dark wooded bogs behind her house. For there was something else about Beatrice that was rarely spoken of in the household, a dark, guilty secret that her disappearance only made worse. Book Groups! Noelle Harrison has put together some starting points for your discussions.
- ISBN10 1843956837
- ISBN13 9781843956839
- Publish Date 1 May 2005 (first published July 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English