Thirty-nine-year-old British photographer and single mom Tess has a good life that revolves around her nine-year-old son Joe and her thriving career. Things look even better when she meets Greg, a charismatic American pediatric heart surgeon, on a photo shoot. The two of them are instantly attracted to each other, and it isn't long before they get married.
When Greg is offered a dream job in Boston along with a part-time teaching position at Harvard, they discuss a possible move to America. Tess is initially reluctant about uprooting her son and leaving behind her friends and family. Plus there is an added complication: she is pregnant, something the couple had definitely not planned on. But they agree that this position is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and decide to go.
Greg seems happy to be back in America and the job is even better than he had hoped, but Tess and Joe have a hard time adapting to life in a new city. More worryingly, Tess notices that their new neighbors, and even some strangers, seem to recognize her husband, which he waves off as coincidence. As these strange encounters continue to occur, however, she begins to suspect that something is not quite right. In secret, she starts to look into Greg's past and discovers more questions than answers about the man she has followed across the ocean--the man who is the father of their new baby daughter.
Lucy Atkins follows her acclaimed debut novel with another white-knuckle ride that explores the danger that can lurk within the everyday routines of family life.
'Ich habe heute an dich gedacht' - 35 Postkarten aus 35 Jahren, alle von einer Susannah Gillespie, alle am gleichen Tag abgestempelt. Kal findet sie, als sie das Atelier ihrer Mutter nach deren Tod ausräumt. Sie hatten immer ein schwieriges Verhältnis, stets hat Kal an der Gefühlskälte ihrer Mutter gelitten. Liegt der Grund ihrer Probleme in Elenas so lange verschwiegenen Vergangenheit? Kurz entschlossen reist Kal mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Finn an die sturmumtoste Küste Kanadas, an den Ort, an dem Susannah ihre Galerie betreibt. Sie ahnt nicht, in welch gefährliche Gewässer sie sich begibt -
In her gripping debut novel, Lucy Atkins takes us on one woman's journey to the beautiful and rugged Pacific Northwest to discover the dark secrets of her family's past so that she can understand and accept herself. Kal McKenzie was never close to her mother Elena, whose coldness towards her spoiled any chance of a good relationship. When Elena dies of cancer, Kal feels forlorn: how do you mourn a mother who, inexplicably, just didn't seem to love you?
While clearing out Elena's art studio, Kal finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message from a Canadian gallery owner named Susannah Gillespie: "Thinking of you." Who is this woman and might she hold the key to her ruined relationship with her mother?
Conflicted by her grief and shaken up from recently seeing a covetous text from an old girlfriend on her husband's cell phone, Kal impulsively sets off with her toddler Finn to Susannah's home on a remote British Columbian island, a place of killer whales and storms.
Soon Kal quickly realizes she has made a big mistake. The striking and enigmatic Susannah will only share a few scraps of information about Elena. Kal discovers that her mother was a pioneering orca researcher-an activist trying to save the powerful and dangerous creatures.
Sturmumtoste Inseln, die Magie von Walen und ein aufwühlendes Drama Kali hatte immer ein kühles Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter. Nach deren Tod findet sie einen Stapel Postkarten - alle von einer Frau namens Susannah, alle mit demselben Text. Wer ist Susannah, und was weiß sie über Kalis Mutter? Mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Finn reist sie auf die abgelegene Insel vor der Küste Kanadas, auf der Susannah lebt. Doch die rätselhafte Frau weigert sich, von damals zu erzählen, und als Kali selbst Nachforschungen anstellt, verhält sich Susannah immer befremdlicher. Am verstörendsten ist ihr großes Interesse an Finn
