Goodreads asked Deborah Burrows:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Deborah Burrows The story of my grandfather's disappearance some time in the late 1940s. There is a family story that he became a merchant seaman and died in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), but no one knows. My grandmother had divorced him (presumably for desertion) and he just slipped out of the lives of his (mostly) grown-up children.
Now, what about the story of a young woman in late 1940s Australia whose father disappeared in mysterious circumstances. She receives a parcel from a foreign land. When she opens it inside is a beautiful star sapphire and a letter... and a mystery unfolds.

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