MARIKA COBBOLD

An account of a young woman''s battle to save her grandmother from a retirement home, her battle against her boyfriend''s defection, and with her mother''s obsession with germs.

By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. She can''t help thinking that she''s managed to lose, rather carelessly, anything she''s ever loved. So she decides to revisit her past in America, and she''s brought her camera to catch these memories. What she isn''t expecting that long, hot summer in New Hampshire is to meet the love of her life... Some years later, now divorced and flourishing as a controversial photographer, Grace finds that she is being haunted by the past. And when she slips on a fallen autumn leaf, her past crashes into her present...