The Hidden Years by Rachel Hore Paperback Book 9781398517998

September 1939 troubled young Imogen Lockhart travels to Cornwall by train to deliver two small boys to their prep school which has been evacuated to Penmartin House for the duration of the waramp160 When sheamprsquos asked to stay on at the school as temporary cover for the usual matron she readily agreesamp160 After all it enables her to put off more serious decisions of what to do with her life amp160amp160But her time at the school turns out to be more complicated than sheamprsquod imagined amp160 In 1966 sensitive and musical Belle Patterson is restless Sheamprsquos finishing her first year at a Midlands university but not enjoying it and is troubled by secrets in her family life When after a chance meeting she falls in love with talented and attractive folk musician Gray Tucker he easily persuades her to abandon her studies and accompany him to Cornwall a place that piques her interest because of a particular photograph sheamprsquos recently found of herself as a baby amp160 On a small commune at Penmartin House near the beautiful Helford estuary she finds life offgrid idyllic at first the other people creative and interesting but underlying tensions soon reveal...