Emilie Defreyne: 2 books

Emilie's story is immensely readable but, in many ways, it's a difficult one. A strange childhood by the sea in rural Essex, an eccentric, intellectual mother and a reserved father gave this baby boomer, growing up in a changing world, an oddly skewed perspective. Moves to Surrey and the busy, prosperous...

Set in the Essex backwaters this is an intriguing mystery with echoes of the Second World War and South America, keeping the reader guessing right to the end. A chance encounter between childhood acquaintances and a little dog leads first to love and then a mystery surrounding a presumed "accidental"...