A story of love, lies and memory.
Charged with the fragility of family, the power of forgiveness.
The story unfolds over a three day period while Daisy visits her mother who has dementia.
Daisy's idyllic childhood in the highlands of Scotland ends abruptly when she is sent to boarding school, but that's just the beginning of her unravelling. Fall-out from her parents' disintegrating marriage spirals her into chaos and the 1970s Punk scene but childhood memories intrude. Was her father’s death suicide, or, as she suspects, did her mother kill her father?
Daisy keeps it all inside, but she has had enough. She marries Jake, a musician, determined to build her life from scratch, based on honesty not lies.
All goes well until the year of her silver wedding, when Jake faces a crisis of his own. Daisy reverts to old ways of coping as betrayal and family secrets, exposed after a quarter of a century, loosen the threads woven so tightly into the fabric of her life.
The story examines the bonds between mother, daughter, father, lover; the nature of commitment and the fierce drive to love. It illustrates how secrets bring only pain, and forgiveness transcends all hurts.
Mostly though, Daisy's story is about trust.
Complete at 80,000 words.