Summer of Secrets

When Bettrys Hopkyns' alcoholic sister Eirlys committed suicide, Bettrys was determined that Eirlys's baby daughter Cheryl -- the result of Eirlys's secretive summer love affair -- would stay with her. Still yearning for Brett, her former lover, Bettrys sets herself a challenge: to find Cheryl's father. Her search takes her and Cheryl to a small seaside village in west Wales to a close-knit community seething with secrets. Befriended by the cheerful Gordon, who falls in love with her, Bettrys is quickly, drawn into a web of deceit and is forced to face the terrifying possibility that Brett might be a murderer...Thompson, Grace is the author of 'Summer of Secrets', published 1999 under ISBN 9780708940808 and ISBN 0708940803.