The child of secrets and solitude

The Photographer’s Wife
By Suzanne Joinson
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Softcover, 334 pages
www.bloomsbury.com

Prue is now an artist in 1937, living a reclusive life by the sea. Her past is brought to the forefront when she is visited by a British pilot, William Harrington, whom she knew as a child while living in Jerusalem.

Prue was left to her own devices when she was taken from her mother and brought to this city by her father, who was traveling for work. It was during that time as an 11-year-old that she moved along the shadows of the adults to discover a few secrets, while also developing a love for her unusual form of art.

It was also during that time between two world wars when she discovered an attraction between Harrington and Eleanora, the wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer, who was involved in a movement trying to remove the British.

In his visit, Harrington reveals the truth of what happened in the past and Prue is forced to look at how she was unknowingly manipulated by these adults and how it led to the betrayal of a father and daughter and a nation.