The release date for the English version of 'The Skylark's Secret' by
Fiona Valpy is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Ewe Loch, 1940. Life in Flora's close-knit community is irrevocably altered when her secluded highland town, the base for the Royal Navy's Arctic convoys, is chosen by the gamekeeper's daughter. The laird's son falls in love with Flora against his disapproving father, and as tensions in their tumultuous family mount, it seems that their happiness is doomed.
Singer Lexie Gordon, Flora's daughter, is compelled to return to her childhood home in a little house in the hamlet after many years away. Even after fleeing to the brilliant lights of the West End ages ago, London never seemed quite like home. Now that she is back and has her own kid, Lexie discovers that her mother and the unfriendly-looking hamlet have been concealing secrets for a long time, which causes her to doubt everything she had previously believed to be true.
Lexie learns of the valiant, tragic sacrifices made in her honour as she puts the pieces of her parents' tale together. Even though it's too late to mend her connection with her mother, will Lexie find the strength to mourn for all she's lost, forgive the past, and ultimately find her place in the world?