![]() As Jess tries to find out what caused her grandmother’s recent distress, a significant childhood memory resurfaces and she begins to piece together what her grandmother was trying to convey in her semi-conscious state. Jess learns that her grandmother had been agitated over the last few days. As her grandmother floats in and out of consciousness, she utters a few disjointed phrases that initially do not make much sense to Jess. Jess and Polly have remained in touch, but they are not close. Nora had raised Jess after Polly, Nora's daughter and Jess’s mother, left for Brisbane when Jess was only ten years old. Nora’s accident occurred while she was searching for something in the attic of her home, Darling House. Jess Turner-Bridges, a forty-year-old journalist, is called back to Sydney, Australia, from her current home in London when her grandmother Nora is hospitalized after a fall. ![]() One must merely learn to listen, and then to comprehend, as with any language.” That they have memories and secrets to tell. “People who grow up in old houses come to understand that buildings have characters. ![]()
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