Spring 1947: Nora Mahler's son, Simon, died aged only seventeen in a fall from a mare that he and his mother had loved almost as another child. And with his death the family falls into an abyss of grief from which it seems they may never emerge.
Neal, Simon's father, destroys the animal that killed his son, although it is the one creature that could have helped his distraught wife heal herself. This is the first in an anger-fuelled series of repressive acts that culminates in his leaving the farm that has been home to Nora's family for generations, taking their only surviving child with him. Nora, trapped in a fog of despair, is unable to stop him. She must find again the strength of spirit that twenty years earlier had drawn her to Ozzie Kline, a farmhand from the wrong side of the tracks, her first love and the man she should have married, the man who may begin to show her the way home . . .
Hugely moving and uplifiting, this is an unforgettable story of sorrow endured and love refound.
