Bloodwood

At the age of seventy-one, Perpetua believes that love is a thing no longer worth worrying about. But when her niece, Myra, arrives in search of the truth about a mother she never knew, Perpetua must consider again the profound love of her past.

Jacqueline Baker writes with confidence and unvarnished honesty, and she has the rare ability to make the familiar brilliant and finely understood. Hers ar...