| Synopsis: |
This is a heartbreaking and poignant family saga from a bestselling author. Spirited Paula O'Brien wants to escape her family home and start a new life afresh. Her abusive father terrifies her and she is scared of defying him. He had her put away in an asylum as a child, after a dreadful incident at her thirteenth birthday party, and he threatens her with the same treatment if she disobeys him now. She is determined to flee the childhood home that brought her misery, and when she sees a newspaper advert for a live-in nanny her best friend Laura persuades her to apply. When Jeffrey Lawson, grieving for his beloved wife who died during childbirth, invites Paula to an interview, she doesn't realize it will change her life for ever. And Jeffrey doesn't expect to meet a woman like Paula, who enters his life, and that of his family, on that snowy afternoon. But can Paula put her past behind her or will it continue to haunt her? |