Forgotten Laughter by Marcia Willett

A Dartmoor summer offers hope and reconciliation

Fair Condition - with extensive cover creasing, scuffs and edge rubbing. Corners and spine ends are worn, with small chips and frayed card at the tips. Pages remain readable

Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole hoping a summer holiday on Dartmoor will give her some distance from painful memories. Her hosts, Brigid Foster and Brigid's spirited elderly mother Frummie, offer a welcome, but the past proves difficult to leave behind. An unexpected visitor unsettles Louise, while Brigid struggles with resentment towards the mother who abandoned her and the half-sister she believes was preferred. As the summer unfolds, new relationships begin to change the household and its emotional landscape. Marcia Willett's novel follows women whose grief, loyalties and old disappointments have shaped their lives, exploring the possibility of forgiveness, renewed affection and the return of happiness where it seemed to have disappeared.