The Touchstone

by Pamela Kavanagh

Catrin Jenkins has landed a job at a newly-restored previously burned-out woollen mill, a tourist attraction near her home in West Wales. Although engaged to long-term boyfriend Will, she is attracted to Ewan, the architect in charge of revamping the mill. Then, when Rissa Birch arrives on one of Catrin's weaving courses, a sequence of events is set in motion. Both girls become party to dreams revealing the history of the mill and how it came to go on fire. A link between themselves and the past unfurls, culminating in family rifts, broken relationships and secrets exposed. Ewan has his own problems but helps Catrin, before leaving for a fresh start in New Zealand. Catrin wants him back, but is it too late?

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2008