Stephen M Giles

Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the familys housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husbands faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study....