![]() ![]() But Agnes is inexplicably drawn to her and believes she can be cured. The child cannot speak and seems deformed. ![]() Their scandalous marriage is a farce, an act of kindness to keep Douglas's fortune from his uncle's grasp.Ī chance visit to a circus brings about a mystery in the form of a fairylike child whose guardians claim was brought up by dingoes. Her husband, Douglas Mulberry, remains shellshocked and unable to speak. The War has, however, stolen Agnes's chance to graduate as a doctor, as well as the fiance she adored. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for those too ravaged by the Great War to cope with the society that first condemned them to battle and which now shuns them. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. ![]()
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