My Dearest T, Whatever you hear, do not believe it for a moment . . .
1940
In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she disappears by the inky lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte’s death when a letter arrives containing a shocking secret that Nancy is sworn to keep – one that will change her life for ever.
1958
Growing up at the mysterious Blackwater Hall, Nancy’s daughter Hattie finds that nothing above or below stairs is quite as it seems and what she discovers she can never forget.
2019
Journalist Ellie Fitzgerald leaves Dublin and flees to Kerry to escape a scandal. But when she uncovers a faded letter, tucked inside the pages of an old book, she finds herself drawn in by a long-buried mystery. And she realises the letter might hold the key to more than just Lady Charlotte’s disappearance.