Backward Glances

It is always difficult to tie up loose ends, particularly when they spring from stories of loss and betrayal and hidden love.


In her third novel, Sue Dooks revisits scenes from the first two novels of her trilogy, largely set in the Cevennes mountains, as she unravels the untold events that still haunt Rosalind and her lover Matthew and others who were caught up  in their story of daring love and unforeseen tragedy. 


For some characters it seems as if reconciliation to their fate will never be possible but place and myth quietly begin to work their magic and ghosts are laid to rest at last.


In the first two novels of her trilogy – The English Girls and L'Hermitage – Sue Dooks shows how the consequences of our actions are never in our control and that to make amends for the forces we may unwittingly unleash will never be easy. In Backward Glances it is once again the power of love and the ability to forgive which brings an acceptance of the past which allows the possibility of a future for her characters.