Judith Lennox

• Catching The Tide
• The Heart of the Night
• Before the storm
• A Step in the Dark
• All My Sisters
• Written On Glass
• Middlemere
• The Dark Eyed Girls

Also by
Judith Lennox

Reynardine, 1989 
Till the Day Goes Down, 1991
The Glittering Strand, 1991
The Italian Garden, 1993
The Secret Years, 1994
The Winter House, 1996
Some Old Lover’s Ghost, 1997
Footprints on the Sand, 1998
Shadow Child, 1999

Before the storm

On a wild autumn day in 1909 Richard Finborough catches sight of twenty-year-old Isabel Zeale at the harbour at Lynmouth and is captivated by her beauty. Scarred by her past, Isabel has no intention of letting anyone get close. But Richard pursues her, and his persistence and ardour win her heart.

The couple marry and have three children, Philip, Theo and Sara. A fourth is added when Ruby, the daughter of Richard’s old friend, comes to stay with them after her father mysteriously disappears. The Finboroughs’ lives seem enviably perfect.

Then, in the 1930s, the reappearance of an old acquaintance turns Isabel’s world upside down, while Ruby uncovers a series of dark truths about her father that lead her to a terrible conclusion. As conflicts simmer in Europe, it seems that love, war and secrets are set to tear the family apart…