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2000s: What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born?
2000s: What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born?
Sophia’s parents lead quiet, unremarkable lives. At least that is what she’s always believed.
Until the day she arrives at her childhood home to find a house ringing with silence. Her mother is hanging from a tree. Her father is lying in a pool of his own blood, near to death.
The police are convinced it is an attempted murder-suicide. But Sophia is sure that the woman who brought her up isn’t a killer. As her father is too ill to talk it is up to Sophia to clear her mother’s name. And to do this she needs to delve deep into her family’s past – a past full of dark secrets she never suspected were there . . .
The story opens up in London where Sophia’s working and on her way to a plus apartment in the Isle of Dogs with a man from the restaurant. He gives the cab the address of Carnavon Mil, Millennium Way but this is of case fictional.
The house and garden centre is close to the A12. The house is a country home and Sophia is surprised to see what state it’s in:
The house was accessible through another blue painted door set in a wooden fence that had long since been given over to treselling, Heavy apricot roses, just past their best, nodded their scented heads above my own as I let myself into m parents’ private gardens.
The house was suddenly visible like a magician’s trick..” Then there’s the final blue door with the sign saying PRIVATE
“This was not only a description but a personal in junction. When I was a little girl, it seemed to me that the world of the house and my parents was a kin of fantasy kingdom, separating us from the milling visitors in the nursery outside”
Destination: London, Suffolk Author/Guide: Helen Callaghan Departure Time: 2000s
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