Now in middle age, a woman confronts her inner self for the first time, questioning her childhood, her adolescence, her parents' marriage. She struggles to come to terms with her past, present and fature, with only her stepdaughter to rely on. But is not until she awakens from an infatuation that she fully realises who she really is... This sweeping yet intimate novel interwines the personal and political as it traces one women's existence across time and against a background of social unrest, t ...