Description
With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest Knox’s novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island. Young, strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore (back cover).
