It's the 1960s and Jennifer Howells is a young woman with the world at her feet, just on the cusp of leaving her Welsh village for an exciting life in the city. Then the contents of an inconspicuous brown envelope turn Jennifer's world upside down. But Jennifer's experience with the excesses of sixties' culture leaves her no closer to her true identity. She soon realises she'll have to travel further - first to Cardiff, then across the ocean to Sicily - if she wants to find out who she really is...
It's 1969 and free-spirited artist Elin Morgan has left Wales for a sun-drenched Greek island. As she makes new friends and enjoys the laidback lifestyle, she writes all about it in her diary. But Elin's carefree summer of love doesn't last long, and her island experience ultimately leaves her with a shocking secret...Twenty-two years later, Elin's daughter Alexandra has inherited the diary and is reeling from its revelations. The discovery compels Alexandra to make her own journey to the same island, following in her mother's footsteps. Once there, she sets about uncovering what really happened to Elin in that summer of '69.
