内容简介：
Mr Bird has just completed the network of tunnels beneath the Duke's estate. Young Mr Bowden has finished the gateposts. But His Grace is far from happy. On his isolated estate the Duke is at the mercy of his household staff. No-one, not even he, understands his most persistent ache, a pain of absence, an elusive memory that struggles to surface. The Duke's slow piecing together of the truth about his past builds to a conclusion of powerful emotional intensity.