The Postcard - Softcover

Leah Fleming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857204025 ISBN 13: 9780857204028

Publisher: Simons & Schuster, 2014

Synopsis

2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past...1930's, London. Caroline grew on a secluded Scottish estate with her 'Aunt' Phoebe. Now, the shocking realisation that Phoebe is actually her mother fuels a rebellious streak in Caroline, who elopes to Cairo to get married. But her marriage quickly turns sour and leads to an affair with an old lover, and to a baby boy, Desmond. With her personal life in tatters and WWII approaching, she volunteers as a secret agent, smuggling valuable information into Europe for the British government. When Caroline finally returns from the war, Desmond is gone; he was secretly taken to Australia by his nanny years before. Will Caroline be able to track him down? And how will her journey to find her son lead to Melissa's mission to uncover her father's past?

About this title

Review:

‘A fabulous story of people, places and pearls from a master storyteller’  -- Lancashire Evening Post on The Last Pearl

About the Author:

Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire and is married with three sons and a daughter. She writes from an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales and an olive grove in Crete.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simons & Schuster
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857204025
• ISBN 13: 9780857204028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416