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A LOVE STORY, A GHOST STORY, A TALE OF
OPPORTUNITIES LOST AND SECOND CHANCES
On a small stretch of untamed Coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to Sea.
When fourteen-year-old May Duhane arrives at the beach for the summer
vacation, she feels isolated and resentful . Her elder sister is interested only in the
local boys, and her father is drawn to a married neighbour, Leonie Beam.
Leonie, Indefinably unhappy in her marriage, shares Ma-y's sense of isolation, for
the annual trip to the beach ,underlines her difficulties in fitting into her husband
powerful family. She confides in Elizabeth Neuton, an ageing widow who is one of
the keepers of the beach and its history'
Meanwhile, May has made an eerie discovery – the diary of a dead girl. To try to
break the diary’s code and unravel its story, she must immerse herself in the past.
And as she is drawn deeper into the beach's history, so she begins to feel she is
destined to follow in the dead girl's tragic footsteps.
'Honest and, absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the
knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests.
Mail on Sunday
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