On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be,...
The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories) - literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription .
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.
Recently separated, Elizabeth has moved to start afresh. However, the house, members of her family and a visitor from the spirit world all conspire to prove the past is never as far away as we think.This is the first play from the bestselling novelist...
But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all.
'Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens..outrageously funny..will dazzle readers for years to come' - HILARY MANTEL, author of The Mirror and the Light