Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger.
A romantic holiday in sunny Rome. A happy marriage strong enough to last forty years. Three children, now adults, who've grown up secure in the knowledge that they know everything about their mum and dad, and each other. But they don't. On the day of the surprise anniversary party Steffie and her brother ...
As read on Radio 4, an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home.'The book is a joy... A bittersweet reminder to all Jamaica's exiles of what we have lost'. Independent