When Cary Stafford's marriage crumbles, her world collapses. She flees London for Turkey for a break but while she is there, the country is devasted by a terrible earthquake that kills thousands. As far as anyone can tell, she is dead. Olivia Georgiou is also English, but her life has taken a different path. Married to a Greek she met while travelling, she has two small children and a close family life on the tiny island of Halemni. When a shell-shocked Englishwoman arrives on their shore, Olivia takes the stranger in to her home. Kitty, as she calls herself, offers to make herself useful, wanting only a refuge and a place to stay indefinitely. But her background is shrouded in mystery. As Kitty and Olivia draw closer, so the similarities between them seem to magnify - so do the differences. When Kitty starts an affair with Olivia's brother, the emotional tension threatens to spill over into the claustrophobic winter community of the island, and a sense of menace begins to grow...
Author Biography
Rosie Thomas writes for magazines and newspapers as well as her fiction. When not writing she spends her time travelling and mountaineering. In 1997 she competed in the Peking to Paris Motor Rally, and she has climbed Mont Blanc as well as travelling to Everest and the Antarctic.
