When Sophia receives news of a strange legacy she returns to Needlewick, the place of her childhood, to receive the bequest. There she is enticed to seek out the people and hidden places of her youth. Following her, however, are people for whom it is a place of shadowy secrets.
Katharine McMahon is the author of seven novels, including the British Book Awards short-listed The Rose of Sebastopol. She was a student of English and Drama and has always combined performing in local theatre with teaching and writing. She's convinced that her knowledge of theatre seeps into her writing, so that she tends to view chapters rather as scenes.
She has two daughters and a son, and lives with her family in Hertfordshire.
