![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem is, Hal knows that her mother’s mother died decades ago the lawyer must have her confused with another Harriet Westaway. The tantalizing phrase “substantial size of the estate”Ĭatches Hal’s eye. The other is a missive on heavy stationery from a solicitor’s firm in Cornwall, informing Hal of the death of her maternal grandmother and summoning Hal to a reading of the will. Two letters stand out in the pile: One is a threat from a loan shark she naively borrowed money from months ago. ![]() When she arrives in her chilly flat, Hal tears open her damp meal of takeout fish and chips and surveys the overdue notices that have arrived in that day’s mail. She never knew her father’s identity, and ever since the hit-and-run death of her mother three years ago, Hal has been eking out a living reading tarot cards in a seedy resort town on the English Channel. The novel opens on, well, a dark and stormy night as a lone young woman scurries her way homeward along a deserted seaside promenade. ![]()
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