Bøker av Eliza Graham

New England, 1992. Sophie's hand trembles as she places the birthday card onto the creamy wood of her dresser - this one postmarked from far away, and signed with a name she's never forgotten

1941. Nineteen-year-old Romilly impulsively accepts a job as a nanny, accompanying eight-year-old Freddie and his grandmother on a sea voyage from war-torn London to the safety of New York.

Rosamond Hunter har hele livet flyktet fra fortiden, og har skyldfølelse for ufrivillig å ha forårsaket morens død. Når jobben som sykepleier bringer henne tilbake til barndomshjemmet Fairfleet for å pleie en eldre mann, en flyktning fra andre verdenskrig, blir hun tvunget til å konfrontere spøkelsene som har hjemsøkt henne så lenge.Pasienten, Benny Gault, kom til Fairfleet første gang i 1939, etter å ha flyktet fra nazi-Tyskland på et «kindertransport»-tog. Etter hvert som helsen svekkes, begynner han og Rosamond å betro seg til hverandre. Begge var svært glad i Rosamonds bestemor Harriet, og etter hvert som de lærer hverandre å kjenne, blir hemmeligheter avslørt og historien snudd på hodet.

A secret family history of love, anguish and betrayal.After her beloved grandmother Rozenn's death, Morane is heartbroken to learn that her sister is the sole inheritor of the family home in Cornwall--while she herself has been written out of the will. With both her business and her relationship with her sister on the rocks, Morane becomes consumed by one question: what made Rozenn turn her back on her?When she finds an old letter linking her grandmother to Brittany under German occupation, Morane escapes on the trail of her family's past. In the coastal village where Rozenn lived in 1941, she uncovers a web of shameful secrets that haunted Rozenn to the end of her days. Was it to protect those she loved that a desperate Rozenn made a heartbreaking decision and changed the course of all their lives forever?Morane goes in search of the truth but the truth can be painful. Can she make her peace with the past and repair her relationship with her sister?