Product Description
'She looks out across the threatening sea at the fragile spindrift driven relentlessly across its boiling surface, driven as surely as she herself was, and by forces just as powerful and mysterious...'
Jennifer Hawker, a child of the west country coast, haunted by loss and sudden grief...a solitary, secretive dreamer, who finds a strange, sustaining alliance with a loved yet dangerous friend, the sea. A girl betrayed by deception and brutality who becomes a striking and enigmatic woman, touched by fame - but when dark consequences of that fame threaten to eclipse her existence she must finally face her own power in a stark and explosive confrontation.
Jennifer Hawker, a child of the west country coast, haunted by loss and sudden grief...a solitary, secretive dreamer, who finds a strange, sustaining alliance with a loved yet dangerous friend, the sea. A girl betrayed by deception and brutality who becomes a striking and enigmatic woman, touched by fame - but when dark consequences of that fame threaten to eclipse her existence she must finally face her own power in a stark and explosive confrontation.
Synopsis
Set predominantly in the period spanning the 40s and 50s, this historical romance tells of how an orphaned girl overcomes adversity, poverty and the death of her parents to become one of the biggest fashion models of the 50s.
