Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.

Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it''s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary
It was a time when she trod the tightrope between separated parents and two very different countries; her bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother and her gentle, reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist and an empty-feeling cottage in deepest DevonAnd it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen.

Since then, Beth hasn''t allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid, painful and vital as ever.

Format Häftad Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Headline Publishing Group Utgivningsdatum 2012-05-24 ISBN 9780755390854