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family
genealogy fiction
historical
historical fiction
historical romance
kate morton
lisa jewell
mixed race experience
racial contract
relationships
the family plot
the family tree
tree house
womans prize fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780099558682
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her.
A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She’s convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional.
And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.
In ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of war time secrets and the search for belonging...
Caitlin Davies is a journalist, teacher, non-fiction writer and novelist. She lives in north London. Her most recent novel is The Ghost of Lily Painter.
