Annie returns to London seeking answers, but she must first piece together the mystery of her past. Decades later, living in San Francisco with a family and a career, she receives a photograph in the mail, setting off a chain of events that threaten to overturn her family's hard-won happiness. What happens when our youthful mistakes come back to haunt us? When our indiscretions come to light and violently interfere with the success of our established careers and our families?Īt nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking and abandon. But it wasn't me who was about to hang" - and eloquence - "It was a photograph innocent enough to anyone unacquainted with its history, its treacherous biological imperatives, its call for reparations left unpaid," Ellison has written a riveting debut novel that fixes an unflinching eye on the power of desire and the danger of obsession. It was tied around my neck like a choker, like a noose. With a stunning combination of tension - "The scarf I was wearing had been hand-colored a blunt red. LAUNCH: Jan Ellison in conversation with Ann Packer
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