Island Ties

When Rose meets her birth mother, Mary, dementia has robbed them of the chance to get to know each other. Through the pages of Mary's diary, Rose follows a bitter-sweet path; learning about the life of a woman who loved her but only held her close for a few fleeting weeks before she gave her away. Rose also discovers tantalising snippets about Mary's parents, Agnes and Duncan McLeod, who ran a guest house on the beautiful island of Arran, where Rose now lives. Although she knows they must have died some years ago, she can find no death certificate for her grandmother. In her determination to find out what happened to Agnes, she risks alienating the rest of her family, but how can she stop when she seems to have unearthed a terrible family secret?