Snowdie has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 304
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141196848
ISBN 10: 014119684X