The past is never past. A historian should know that.Margaret walked out of Jenny North's life on Friday, June 16th 1967. Margaret told nobody where she was going or why. At seventeen years old, Jenny expected to go to college to study history, not to have her life haunted by the mystery of her stepmother's past. And she didn't think she would spend fifteen years trying to find out who Margaret really was and why she left. The search for Margaret takes Jenny from Oxford to Paris and from 1967 back to the Second World War. Along the way Jenny learns who her relatives are, and who her friends are. And she discovers why all is not as it seemed. Rosemary Hayward leads you into the changing world of late twentieth England, as seen through the eyes of a serious minded and intelligent heroine who doesn't always behave so very heroically.