Calcutta, 1857. A mute, scarred woman is carried through the streets on a pallet. The lone survivor, they whisper, of the horrors in the bibighar.Her name is Annie Meade. And she must find her way home.The following year, veiled in widow's weeds, Annie steps back onto English soil to reclaim the son she has not held for eleven years .But outside the walls of his Shrewsbury school she falters. How can a broken woman, her face still marked by a bayonet's slash, present hersel...