An enthralling novel from a beloved storyteller
Jesse Marley calls herself a realist, but all her certainties are blown aside by events she can’t control. First she finds out she’s adopted – and then she’s run down by a motorbike.
In a London hospital, unable to speak, she begins to draw. From her fingers flow images of places she’s never been, people from another time – a castle, a man in armour. And a woman’s face.
Rory Brandon, Jesse’s neurologist, is intrigued – and shocked. He knows the castle. He’s been there...