![]() Abbie puts up with terrible treatment from her father, brother, and ex and veers between telling them off and forgiving them. However, the story is let down by over-the-top characters whose rapid emotional about-faces are hard to tolerate. ![]() Petersburg during the lead-up to the Bolshevik Revolution. The easy prose style draws one in immediately, and the setting of the early segments offers much promise: glittering St. ![]() As Abbie attempts to revitalize the family’s jewelry business, one revelation follows another as Millie speaks about her years as governess to an aristocratic Russian family. Abbie doesn’t buy it, though, and turns to Millie for answers. Most of Abbie’s family, a truly sour bunch, blames her for Kate’s death, claiming that Abbie and her illegitimate daughter made Kate feel ashamed and despondent. ![]() ![]() In 1963, Abbie returns home to the Lake District from Paris after splitting with her married lover. Here the plot centers on the surprising suicide of Abbie Myers’ mother, Kate, and how it relates to the time Abbie’s adored grandmother, Millie, spent in Russia in the early 20 th century. Best known for her sagas of historical British life, Lightfoot’s newest release fits with the popular dual-narratives trend, in which family secrets from an earlier generation spill forth in a later era with dramatic results. ![]()
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