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Two sisters, Erica and Beth Calcott, inherit the home of their grandmother Meredith and return to the places where they spent their childhood summers before a terrible tragedy occurs. Between childhood memories and current pain, Erica slowly coming back on a past of mystery and unspoken covering four generations, starting with this strange photo of their great-grandmother, Caroline, posing with a child who does not appear anywhere share in the family tree of the family ...

"Inheritance" ("The Legacy") is a very powerful story, since the outset, the reader is intrigued by these two distant mysteries of nearly a century. The alternation between past and present provides continuous suspense, the author taking care to complete each piece with a moment which gives a terrible desire to know more. The writing and plot are of high quality, with that little something extra in the events and characters that touches on universal and visceral feelings and can therefore be ignored.

Halfway between Barbara Vine and Kate Morton, Katherine Webb offers an excellent time to read, so that despite the length of the book, we regret to see arriving the last page ...