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|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=A top class combination of mystery and histprical historical fiction. Hard to put down and very satisfying. Great stuff.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
There's been another man in the picture for a long time. Don Armstrong ''had'' been Walter's best friend, but he seemed to have transferred his affections to Jeannie - and she to him. Don didn't care whom he hurt and at Foxcote Manor the affair was blatant. Then Hera found a baby abandoned in the woods and for the summer the family would treat it as their own, until the night of the shooting.
In the present day, Sylvie is moving her possessions into a small flat. She's separated from her husband, Steve, but she hopes that for the sake of their daughter, Annie, they can remain on reasonable terms. Annie's due to go to Cambridge to read maths. Well, that was the plan until she told Sylvie about the baby... And Sylvie's mother had an accident which that left her in a coma.
This is a cracker of a book. When I started reading I simply wasn't going to be away from it for too long and I finished it in just over twenty-four hours. Rita is a superb character. The children call her 'Big Rita' and at one point she's described as ''devoted as a Great Dane''. That sums her up perfectly. They're not her children, but she loves them as though they are. She's always been conscious of her size and tries to minimise it - and hide the scars from ''that'' car crash. Even with Fred she never felt completely relaxed about who she was and that doesn't change until she meets local woodsman, Robbie Rigby.
