Solange de Valnay's ordered world is shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father for the first time. She loves the man who has always been Papa and the Languedoc vineyard in which she had the happiest of childhoods; Celine, her mother, is dead. But the truth of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried.
'And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate'These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family.
Solange de Valnay's perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers
the identity of her true father for the first time. She loves the man who
has always been "Papa" and the Languedoc vineyard in which she had the
happiest of childhoods; Celine, her adored mother, is dead. But the truth
of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried, and the
Kirwan children and their half-sister must overcome their differences and
confront the past that unites them. What emerges is an extraordinary tale
of an impossible but irresistible love affair, of passion and blind heroism,
of sacrifices made for love and honour and of four families whose resistance
to the German forces occupying France during the Second World War binds
them across borders and cultures and through war and peace.
