Facing The Light Katie Fforde In a time of civil

In a time of civil war

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Lacey heads back to New York

Facing The Light Katie Fforde In a time of civilAn extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings are kept at the family home, Willow Court in Wiltshire. At Leonora's house party will be her daughters, Gwen and Rilla, whom she raised alone after she was widowed in her late twenties; Rilla's stepdaughter Beth; and Gwen's husband and three children