Ann Brophy

Amid confusion and a sense of loss, Madeline reluctantly returns to her family's home on the New England shore--the home where her father died at the end of the previous summer. Her life seems frighteningly empty now--she hardly knows her mother, she has few friends in the small village; all she can count on is a beloved but aging dog named Flash. And then, mysteriously drifting in and out of her life, comes an extraordinary swan.

Ann Brophy has written a sensitive novel about the pain and joy of growing up and the acceptance of love that survives even death.