The Skylark''s Secret
English
By (author): Fiona Valpy
Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeepers daughter Floras remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navys Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the lairds son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed.
Decades later, Floras daughter, singer Lexie Gordon, is forced to return to the village and to the tiny cottage where she grew up. Having long ago escaped to the bright lights of the West End, London still never truly felt like home. Now back, with a daughter of her own, Lexie learns that her motherand the hostile-seeming village itselfhave long been hiding secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew.
As she pieces together the fragments of her parents story, Lexie discovers the courageous, devastating sacrifices made in her name. Its too late to rekindle her relationship with her mother, but can Lexie find it in her heart to forgive the past, to grieve for all thats lost, and finally find her place in the world?
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