A COUNTRY ROAD, A TREE

LONGBOURN

It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House the residence of the Bennett family of Pride and Prejudice. Domestic life below stairs, ruled by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed. For in Georgian England, there is a world the young ladies in the drawing room will never know, a world of poverty, love, and brutal war.

THE PICTURE BOOK

This is a family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a bicycle champion followed by his crippled son Will who becomes an Oxford academic and finally Will's daughter Billie, an artist in contemporary London.

THE TELLING

When Rachel moves into her mother’s isolated country house she struggles to put her mother’s affairs in order. She is sure the house holds a secret message for her. Are the ghosts from the past finding their way into the present or is Rachel losing her mind?