“Released by the death of her vampirish mother, Helen Tarrant — shy, solitary resigned to spinsterhood before her time Dash – returns to the one place which to her stands for happiness: her childhood home, lost in a dimly remembered catastrophe which still obsessively overshadows her life. Sinking her last penny in the reconstruction and conversion of the lovely but derelict old house, she finds herself drawn into the concerns of her widely assorted tenants; and, under the shadow of a new crisis, discovers the truth about her past and learns that friendship and love or not, after all, beyond her reach.
The Forgotten Place
