![]() ![]() It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. ![]() Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. From the 1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, a novel that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family’s secret past A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance: On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. ![]() A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. ![]()
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