A Half-Forgotten Song - Hardcover

England, 1937. In the Dorset village of Blacknowle, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has a lonely upbringing. The arrival of artist Charles Aubrey with his exotic mistress and their daughters, is like a breath of fresh air. As Charles s muse, Mitzy develops a deep bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually, Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible, and a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that will grow as she does: from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex. Seventy-five years later the consequences of this potent desire reverberate, as a young man in an art gallery looks at a portrait and wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him to Blacknowle; and draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s.