Nightingale Summer

the long version

Alison's parents emigrated to Australia, in mysterious circumstances, when she was six years old. Now, her parents dead, she is back to look after her sick Grandmother. Gran hints at secrets, but dies suddenly before they can be told. Alison returns to the little Dorset village where she had lived as a young child, hoping to find answers to the mystery. There, she finds more than she expected, as the secrets of the beautiful Manor House of Nightingales are gradually yielded up.