In 1927, a young girl’s world shatters when her mother—child prodigy and literary sensation Bronwyn Fordham—vanishes without a trace. What’s left behind is grief, a half-finished story, and a language only Bronwyn could write.
Years later, Clara is an illustrator, a mother herself, and still haunted by questions. When a stranger in London claims to have uncovered her mother’s lost dictionary, Clara hesitates. But the pull of the past is too strong.
With her daughter in tow, Clara journeys across the Atlantic, only to land in the heart of the Great Smog. Stranded in the English countryside, she’s forced to confront her mother’s legacy, the pain she buried, and the possibility of truth.
Some stories are never finished. Others are waiting to be found.
