内容简介：
For Amelia and her brothers and sisters, the grim past endured by their mother, Emily, seems far away. Amelia, studying to be a teacher in York, becomes acquainted with Ralph Hawkins and his friend Jack, who have come from Australia to meet her family. Ralph finds that Amelia's tangled family history is inextricably bound up with his own. His world had been turned upside down when he learned he had been adopted and in his quest to find his real mother, Ralph uncovers some cruel and unpleasant truths, before at last realizing where his destiny lies...