After 15 years as a war correspondent and ‘post card’ parent, Alex comes home to Caithness to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. But the bereaved father of his best friend, William, wants him to return to Afghanistan to find the orphan William had befriended, throwing into jeopardy Alex’s fragile rapprochement with his teenaged daughter and the woman he left at the altar. A story of love and redemption, good intentions and tragic outcomes, and how two families together made sense of it all.
A very real and emotional journey, through foreign lands and for me very local ones, with changes from simple to complex and with the re-assessment of a life. I would love to say more but do not want to spoil the story, which runs at a great pace and speed, and the characters feel very real and your heart goes out to them as they try to find a way through the mess around them.