Following the fortunes of some of the much-loved characters from her bestseller \'The Journey\', Josephine Cox\'s powerful novel spans continents, decades and generations of one family. Like a ghost from the past, she walked along the platform towards them... It has been over twenty years since Vicky Maitland set foot on English soil. Twenty years since she left Liverpool with her three children, bound for a new life in America, leaving her beloved husband Barney behind. But this long journey home is the hardest of all. She is here in search of the truth, afraid of what she may find. Why did Barney turn against his family so suddenly, so cruelly? Only her old friend Lucy Baker knows what happened. And Lucy promised Barney she would never tell his secret. Is it time she broke her silence and explained the events of so long ago?