Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the
wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation...
Until one night her granddaughter rows ashore in the midst of a storm,
desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept to herself -
with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned by the world
outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be
turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her
granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will
fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests...
A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy
Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.