The Colour of Hope

All her life she had feared death by water…

Ruth Carter, her gentle husband Paul and their two children spend idyllic summers at their holiday retreat on the beautiful and rugged coast of Maine. But one year, as son Will celebrates his fourteenth birthday, a sailing trip goes tragically wrong and their beautiful, troubled daughter Josie is swept overboard. She disappears without a trace.

Trapped in a spiral of guilt, grief and denial, and by the demands of her exacting legal career, Ruth finds her life beginning to fall apart. But fate has an even crueler trick up its sleeve, one which threatens to take from her everything she holds most dear. The only thing she has to keep her going is hope.

Susan Madison was born in Oxford and lives there now, following spells in Paris and Tennessee. A novelist of considerable experience, The Colour of Hope marks an exciting new direction in her writing career.