Emily moved with her family from England to a remote farm in New Zealand as a child. As an adult, she returned back to England, leaving her siblings and her father behind. Her relationship with her father is distant - he’s never been the most affectionate and she’s always felt like she wasn’t good enough.
She gets a phone call saying her father is ill with dementia and she needs to return home. She goes and is met by a father who didn’t recognise her at first. In a lucid moment, he hands her an envelope to open after his death with no indication of what it may contain except that it can do a great deal of harm but that the truth is important.
The trip back to NZ has brought back memories, which we get flash backs to.
We also meet Raewyn: the neighbour who has been looking after Emily’s father. She is mother to Emily’s childhood best friend, Ira. Her husband died of Huntingdon’s disease and we glean that her daughter, Leah, went missing 25 years earlier.
My question is: does the envelope contain some information about her missing?
The prose is descriptive and nostalgic. Some suspense is built up. There’s a lot of emotion that resonates.
She gets a phone call saying her father is ill with dementia and she needs to return home. She goes and is met by a father who didn’t recognise her at first. In a lucid moment, he hands her an envelope to open after his death with no indication of what it may contain except that it can do a great deal of harm but that the truth is important.
The trip back to NZ has brought back memories, which we get flash backs to.
We also meet Raewyn: the neighbour who has been looking after Emily’s father. She is mother to Emily’s childhood best friend, Ira. Her husband died of Huntingdon’s disease and we glean that her daughter, Leah, went missing 25 years earlier.
My question is: does the envelope contain some information about her missing?
The prose is descriptive and nostalgic. Some suspense is built up. There’s a lot of emotion that resonates.