Blackberry Winter

Blackberry WinterBy: Sarah Jio 'I adore Sarah Jio's novels.' Santa Montefiore A haunting story of love, family and the secrets that can destroy us 1933. Vera Ray kisses her young son goodnight and leaves to work the night shift at a local hotel. The next morning, she discovers an sudden snowfall has blanketed the city, and her son has vanished, the snow covering up any trace of his tracks, or the perpetrator's. 2010. Journalist Claire Aldridge has been burying herself

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