She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.' She eyes the rearview mirror, keeps a look out for headlights, keeps a look out for him. As dawn breaks over sleeping houses, Eleanor straps her infant daughter Amy, into the back of her car. Together they will escape the private hell of Eleanor's marriage to make the drive to blue mountain, a place of enchantment and refuge that lit up Eleanor's childhood. Can she be sure that her husband, Braun, is not on their trail? As the car eats up the long miles of highway, so Eleanor's mind dives back into the depths of her childhood, and into her fraught relationship with her mother, Kitty. Kitty a woman who wanted so much, in marriage and in love.

Kitty who always tried to hard to bend Eleanor, her brother and her father, to her image of the perfect family. In her masterful second book, Sarah Schmidt, acclaimed author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE? reworks the classic road novel to tense, devastating, and ultimately redemptive effect. , thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere that will keep you safe[M1] . We never have to come back here.' Her foot on the accelerator takes them out of Wintonvale, takes them toward the highway to the mountain. She eyes the rear-view mirror, keeps a lookout for headlights, keeps a lookout for him. [M2] [M1]Or better as 'we can be safe'? [M2]Great.