Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Canongate Books, 2023
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 08 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781786896018 MWT15756395, 178689601X 15756395
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Narrated by Lynn Norris
Widowed and without grandchildren, the loneliness becomes crippling for children's illustrator Beverly Vernon. So she begins a portrait of the ideal granddaughter, who is blonde, violet-eyed and smiling. Until she uncovers the bones of a young child in her back garden. Then Beverly's painting changes of its own accord; the girl's smiling expression turns grim. As Beverly endeavours to identify the child and how it died, her sanity is tested to the limit. While hunting for the truth in a dark past, Beverly risks everything in her present
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