The Distant Hours 9788538032472 Ackerman pretends to have been

Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War

and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely

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even though most people believe that Izzy is dead

And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth

The Distant Hours 9788538032472 Ackerman pretends to have beenEdie Burchill and her mother have never been close but, when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother was chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later, Edie, too, is drawn to Milderhurst and