Publisher's Synopsis
Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, never parted day or night. They are raised among the Children, a community of strays and orphans ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the grey Isle of Altnaharra which sits in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. But the world is at war and cannot be kept at bay. As the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, Eve's sanity begins to fracture. In a great storm, in the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the locals discover a devastating scene on the isle. Eve's and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty and who is innocent?
