In this, her fifth novel, Marika Cobbold brings her trademark wit and observation to a finely wrought and moving tale of someone who has to confront the choices of her life, both as an artist and a woman.
By the time Grace is eighteen she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose, rather carelessly she feels, anything she's ever loved.
So when she decides to revisit her past in America, she wants to know exactly what shade her mother's lipstick was and who, exactly, she should be rebelling against. And she's brought her camera - she's going to catch these memories and pin them down to keep. What she isn't expecting, that long, hot summer in New Hampshire, is to meet the love of her life.
Some years later, now divorced and a controversial photographer, Grace finds that she is, quite literally, being haunted by the past . . .
