The Hour Before Dawn
O ovoj e-knjizi
Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother. After their first blissfully happy years together, tragedy strikes and Fleur is left widowed with her young twin daughters, Nikki and Saffie. Grief-stricken, she prepares to take her daughters back to England – and then one of them mysteriously vanishes, without a trace.
New Zealand, present day. Nikki Montrose, pregnant, is still haunted by the disappearance of her twin sister. Unable to reconcile with her mother, the ghosts of the past haunt her dreams. Fleur’s impending visit forces her to confront her fears. Then when her mother goes missing en route, Nikki must journey to Singapore and attempt a reconciliation. But what they discover back in Port Dickson will send shockwaves through the entire family.
O autoru
Sara Macdonald has spent much of her life as a nomad, travelling all over the world, first with her parents, then as an army wife. Eventually, she put down roots in Cornwall and started writing professionally, for magazines, then as a full-time novelist. She is the author of the bestselling SEA MUSIC and ANOTHER LIFE, among many other novels. At the end of 2009 she took to traveling again, visiting Oman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and living for a year in Karachi, Pakistan.
