Pearl Shan Hughes

A lyrical, emotionally filled novel about family happiness, parent-child love, and overcoming trauma.
The disappearance of a loved one changes not only the present and future but also the past of a person. Marianne was only eight when her mother disappeared,... and the memories of the sunny garden, walks, and fragrant pies seem to have faded. Was their family's life really so cloudless if one day her mother simply left the house and did not return? This question torments Marianne, and she seeks the answer in the old house and by the riverside, with her father, neighbors, and in medieval poetry. She searches as a child, a troubled teenager, and as an adult woman, having become a mother herself. Does a miracle exist that can help her regain her happy past and, along with it, change the future?