*'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.'*
Rosemund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story, but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin s granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.
This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child..