The separation
By: Dinah Jefferies
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Charnwood
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781444825657
Subjects: Marriage; Separated parents; Families; Fiction
Description: Malaya, 1955: Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband, Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Fearful and desperate, she contacts the British District Officer and learns that Alec has been posted up-country. But why didn't he wait? Why did he leave no message? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through the war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to a man she'd vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family. And while carrying her own secrets, Lydia will soon face a devastating betrayal which may be more than she can bear ...
Notes: Adult.