Songs of Blue and Gold

Summary

Melissa's life is in disarray. There are cracks in her marriage, and her mother, Elizabeth, is losing her memory. Elizabeth presents her daughter with a gift that suggests a very secret history - one that leads Melissa to Kalami, where Julian Adie, poet, traveller and novelist, once lived. But what is the connection between the hedonistic Adie and Melissa's mother? As Melissa chases Adie's shadow across the places he loved, she finds her mother may not have been the person she thought. Forced to question loyalty and her own unwillingness to let love in, Melissa is gradually led to a re-evaluation of her own life...

©2008 Deborah Lawrenson (P)2009 Isis Publishing Ltd