The Butterfly Cabinet: A Novel

Now in paperback—“An emotionally bracing refreshingly intelligent and ultimately heartbreaking story” (Kirkus Reviews) of two women linked by a tragic decades-old secret.. When former nanny Maddie McGlade receives a letter from the last of her charges she realizes the time has come to unburden herself of a secret she has kept for more than seventy years: the truth behind the death of Charlotte Ormond the four-year-old daughter of the wealthy household where Maddie was employed as a young woman. Based on chilling events that actually took place in the north of Ireland in 1892 The Butterfly Cabinet is a sterling example of dark emotionally complex fiction.