Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves
from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame
shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Bront�
scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-
century female balloonist, and an elusive explorer with the ghost – or the
memory – of Emily Bront�. Urquhart reveals something about the act of
artistic creation, the ways in which stories enter our lives, and about the
cyclical nature of love throughout time. This is a novel of darkness and
light, of intense weather and inner calm. From the Hardcover edition.