12 Years separate Mercer from her older sister Lindsay- a half generation gap that has driven them apart. There are other long hidden reasons why Lindsay has formed an uneasy alliance with their widowed mother Joan, while Mercer is forced to make her own way in a search for love and fulfilment. But when family resentment comes to a head - at home, at Christmas - a searching appraisal of her own and her mother's past finally allows Mercer to work out the parallels and paradoxes which link their lives. And it is she, Mercer- compelled, driven, haunted-who will discover why she is the keeper of her family's dreams... This edition published by Pan Books 1991 Reasonable used condition