Life is sweet for seventeen-year-old Alison. A long, hot summer nannying in the South of France is bound to brush-up her French, top-up her tan and - who knows - maybe even pep-up her love life too! But when Alison arrives in the sleepy village of St Secrets her dreams come crashing down around her. . . it's just so dull! And then she discovers the secret diary, and Alison finds herself swept away with its emotional, passionate and intriguing revelations. . .
Allison is off to France to get away from it all, home, boyfriend Martin and just to kick back and have a good time while working babysitting a little girl called Effie. But the house and its occupants of elderly folk have a lot of secrets from the past that are slowly being revealed when Allison finds an old notebook that tells her more about the shuttered room and it's occupant's sad past than she wishes to have known... Whimsical, romantic, with hidden family secrets and a hint of the supernatural, all ingredients for a great read.