The Hideaway

'Find Moira for me. Tell her I'm sorry...' These are the dying words uttered by artist Walter Drummond to his daughter, Eleanor, on his deathbed in 1936. Eleanor has never heard the name Moira before, and daren't even say it to her mother. Yet she is haunted by the mysterious woman who consumed her father's thoughts in his final moments. Who was Moira and what hold did she have over Walter? So begins Eleanor's quest to unearth the truth about her father and his past. What starts as a promise becomes an obsession and in Eleanor's determination to find Moira, she discovers things about her family she'd rather not have known. It is a journey that will take her to Cornwall, to a tiny artist's cottage by the sea, to a passionate first love and a devastating secret...THE HIDEAWAY is a gripping story of family secrets, first love and obsession, from Valerie Mendes, bestselling author of LARKSWOOD.


Genre: Historical