The Weeping Sands

The Weeping Sands is a captivating historical saga interweaving four tales of love and loss spanning four centuries, with a ruined mansion providing the links between past and present, whilst the weeping sands of the title, the Lavan Sands provide a melancholy background to the novel s events.

Jenna Shaw, 32, children s TV presenter, is invited to take par t in a TV show exploring her ancestry, a quest which will take her, ultimately, to the ruined mansion of Baron Hill, in Beaumaris, Anglesey. Four centuries earlier, Thomas Cheadle, despised for his affair with Lady Anne Bulkeley, and blamed for the death of her husband, prepares to play his part as the Civil War reaches Wales. Isobel Harcourt, recovering from a breakdown following a failed love affair with artist, James Pennington, and in the protection of her sister, is taken to Beaumaris, Anglesey, to convalesce. The year is 1831.

How do Isobel s strange delusions link the past and the present? What will be the outcome of Jenna s quest?