{"product_id":"a-gathering-storm","title":"A Gathering Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father, Tom. Amongst his papers she finds an intriguing letter written ten years before, from a woman, Beatrice Marlow, begging to meet him to disclose important family information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome months later Lucy finds herself on holiday in Cornwall. She visits her father's childhood home, the once-beautiful Carlyon Manor, and tracks down the letter-writer. Beatrice, now an old woman, has an extraordinary story to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in the 1930s, Beatrice played with the children of Carlyon Manor - especially pretty, blonde Angelina Wincanton, who was Lucy's grandmother. The Wincantons are a glamorous but unconventional family. The four Wincanton children bear the brunt of their parents' unhappiness, and Beatrice is much valued as a steadying influence. There comes a summer when the Wincantons are away, that Beatrice, now fifteen, falls in love with a young visitor to the town: Rafe Ashton, whom she rescues from the sea when his boat is caught up in a storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dark clouds of war are gathering and Beatrice, Rafe, and the Wincantons will all be swept up in the cataclysm of events that follows. It's a story that will take Beatrice from Cornwall to London, and France; a powerful tale of courage and betrayal in which friendship and true love are tested to the utmost, with ramifications reaching down the generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor as Lucy listens to Beatrice's story, she learns a secret that will change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Hore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44817651073193,"sku":"9781849832885","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781849832885.jpg?v=1729997010","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/a-gathering-storm","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}