Corsica

Corsica. Summer 1989. Fifteen year old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family's car veers off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to come to terms with her past. But then she receives a letter - from her mother as if she were alive. It seems impossible. Clotilde watched her parents and brother die that day. She has lived with their ghosts ever since. But then who sent the letter - and why?

London 1986. Bequeathed an old portrait by her grandmother, Kate Darling begins to unpick the tapestry of her family's secret history in a journey that take her to Corsica, Paris and back to the heady days of the roaring twenties where it all began. Paris, 1939: Alice Eversley and Thomas Stafford meet again in the City of Light. Tom is now a world-famous artist, Alice is much changed too - bruised from the events of the last decade. Perhaps they can lost themselves in the love story that ignited by a moonlit lake all those years ago. But sometimes there's no place for happy endings - and there's no hiding from the shadow of war...