Eithne is the keeper of secrets in her family. When her sister Beatrice disappeared from her home in the dark woods of Meath, it was thirteen-year-old Eithne who uncovered the forlorn evidence of her life: a string of pearls, a pink beret, a compact and her beloved sketchbook. Their mother Sarah was so grief-stricken that she did not speak for five years, and their father Joe sank further into drink-filled rage. Now an adult, Eithne is an artist, and tries to remember her sister in her sketches of the dark wooded bogs behind her house. For there was something else about Beatrice that was rarely spoken of in the household, a dark, guilty secret that her disappearance only made worse. Book Groups! Noelle Harrison has put together some starting points for your discussions.