A young British girl befriends a South African political exile in the 1990s and is thrust into danger when his dark past catches up with him. A literary coming-of-age thriller.

The man Rosemary Blunt has every reason to hate has appeared again, only this time he’s lying in a coma and it is her decision whether to let him live or let him go. Will the arrival of abstract artist Ben help her to confront the ghosts of the past?

When a stranger approaches Julia Butler at her mother’s funeral and hints at a disturbing family secret, her life is turned upside down.   Grief-stricken, Julia finds her well-ordered life unravelling and herrelationships in turmoil.  As the mystery around the stranger deepens, she must not only make peace with those around her, but with the ghosts from her past to find hope for the future.’

It’s 1997. The youngsters are married, with professional careers, they have two small children. The heat is on as a family crisis hits just when she’s due to give a scientific a paper at a conference. Has everything gone awry? Questioning cultural assumptions, maintaining fun, love and laughter.

Lydia’s quiet expat life in Cambodia is dramatically turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Song, a young & vulnerable Vietnamese girl, and the flattering romantic attentions of a handsome, dashing local man. Just as she settles into this new-found happiness, everything is shattered as Song is kidnapped and sold into the child sex trade.