Why a Booktrail?
21C: Three sisters return to Dublin to face the past they thought they had buried 20 years earlier when someone they all knew died in a lake in mysterious circumstances.
A Family Scandal
What you need to know before your trail
Twenty years ago, rock musician Zach Anderson mysteriously plunged to his death in a lake.
Now, the media are once again interested in the affair but this new interest looks set to rip apart the glamourous Morgan family apart. Sisters Ellie, Miranda have a half sister Lucy who is Zach’s love child. Ellie fled Dublin and moves to New York in a desperate attempt to forget their mother’s affair with Zach. Miranda flees Zach’s legacy from the safety of Hong Kong whilst in London, fashion model Lucy still wonders what really happened to cause her father’s death.
Three sisters return to Dublin when their mother becomes ill and the time is set for a confrontation with each other and with the past.
Travel Guide
Remote Canadian retreat and lake
Twenty years ago Zach in mysterious circumstances and the news comes on the television again as a haunting reminder of what happened –
“It had been sunny that day and the lake had resembled a sheet of blue, unblemished glass with not even a surface rippled to hint at the sad tragedy is had witnesses.Now, the choppy waters mirror the iron-grey sky.”
From here we go on a journey back to London, HK and New York before returning to Dublin and the fall out from this event twenty years previous. From their far flung locations, three sisters recall events of that day and want to search for answers
Dublin
The setting for secrets to be exposed within the confines of the hills sough of Dublin, where the secrets of the past are going to merge and the importance of sisters as they struggle to make sense of the world in the past 20 years is going to test the bond between them. Each has a different story to tell and a different way of coping.
New York
“with all the bustle and bright lights, it’s so constantly full on” Hey even the air in this city is vibrant. So the perfect place to escape your past.
Hong Kong
Miranda flees here. Secrets gradually reveal themselves as to why Miranda’s failed relationships are linked to Ellie in some ways. Always feeling like the sister in the middle, she comes to the city of chaos and bustling activity, just what she needs in order to reinvent herself away from her sisters
When Miranda had first come to Hong Kong, it had been like being thrust into a strange but enormous melting pot of bustle and diversity
London
A successful career as a fashion model, Lucy has worked in London for years without knowing the truth about her father. The youngest and perhaps most involved of the three sisters for she is his real daughter, she has the most questions to ask and the most complex feelings to resolve.
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