The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves Ten years ago traumatized by her fathers death Lucy left her home and her country. Now she returns to her familys rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. Sleepless one night Lucy makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her familys true history she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction . . . Mesmerizing and haunting The Lake of Dreams is a startling story of family secrets and lies lost love and redemption and of the many pieces and puzzles that make up a life. Beautifully plotted and breathtakingly accomplished Daily Express A powerful saga Good Housekeeping An epic of discovery and deception She Edwards writes vividly and atmospherically Guardian
