It’s a long, hot Halifax summer in 1959 and twelve-year-old R osalie N orman has aguilty secret. Her no-nonsense, authoritarian mother has broken her ankle—and it’sall R osalie’s fault. But news that Johnny, her teenaged cousin, has vanished pushesthe accident from everyone’s minds. As R osalie and David—her strange new neighbour—search the city for Johnny, R osalie discovers something about the love and thesecrets that bind her family.
