An evocative and charming Edwardian family saga

Dorothea looked out of the nursery window. Hours and hours had passed and her papa had not come.

Abandoned by her father and left in the care of an uncle she has never met, eight-year-old Dorothea Ryan finds herself cast away in a big, strange house in the middle of the countryside. No one seems to want her. Her one wish is to return to her old home in London.

But as time passes and hopes of ever going back start to fade, Dorothea becomes more and more enmeshed in her new life at Clifton Park. She begins to wonder just where home really is . . .

A beautifully written story of identity, loyalty and family set in the bucolic Edwardian countryside.