A Perfect Stone

How do you find a place to belong when theres nowhere else to go?Living alone eighty-year-old Jim Philips potters in his garden feeding his magpies. He doesnt think much of his nosy neighbours or telemarketers. All he wants to do is live in peace.Cleaning out a box belonging to his late wife he finds something which triggers the memories of a childhood hes hidden not just from his overprotective middle-aged daughter Helen but from himself. When Jim has a stroke and begins speaking another language Helen is shocked to find out her father is not who she thinks he is.Jims suppressed memories surface in the most unimaginable way when he finally confronts what happened when as a ten-year-old he was forced at gunpoint to leave his family and trek barefoot through the mountains to escape the Greek Civil War in 1948.A Perfect Stone is a sweeping tale of survival loss and love.