The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter
Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and
incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of
other unique novels returns with his first new book in five years;
and proves again that in his masterful hands, powerful drama and
devastating secrets can be found at the heart of even the smallest
mysteries.
For nearly her whole life, through most of the twentieth
century, Rachel Matson saw the world through the lens of a camera,
and produced stunning photographs that not only captured the moment
but hinted at a greater truth. Now the ninety-year-old widow lies
paralyzed, in the final stages of a debilitating illness. Yet while
Rachel's body may be useless, her spirit remains indomitable, her
mind razor sharp, and her eye, the trained eye of an artist, still
picks up the most telling details. Together with her vast
collection of photographs, these gifts are about to help her meet
an extraordinary challenge, as she confronts a shattering mystery
that harkens back over the decades...
On a television program that showcases heirlooms, an antique
pistol that belonged to her late husband, Colonel Jocelyn Matson,
turns up, leaving Rachel bewildered and then profoundly disturbed.
How could the prized Ladurie -- one of a matched pair of dueling
pistols she had given to him to commemorate his return from the
horrors of a Japanese POW camp -- appear hundreds of miles away in
the possession of a stranger?
Determined to learn the fate of Jocelyn's gun, Rachel falls back
on the one thing left to her -- her intellect -- and soon begins
the painful process of teasing the past from the shadows.
Whatemerges from the vivid shards of her memories is a mesmerizing
tale of honor, passion, and betrayal that stretches from colonial
India to modern-day England ...a tale of a loving marriage
interrupted by war, of a once-proud regiment of soldiers broken by
unspeakable cruelty, and of a dashing officer burdened by a lurid
secret.
Charged with emotion and harrowing suspense, Peter Dickinson's
astonishing novel draws you in, until, as helpless as Rachel
herself, you can only wait and ponder, while the missing pieces of
the past are slowly brought into sharp focus, and the haunting
truth at last is shockingly revealed.
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