Penny Feeny: 27th October 2011

-That Summer in Ischia-

In 1979, Helena and Liddy travel to Ischia to be au pairs to two wealthy Italian families. But when a little boy in their care goes missing, the girls are under suspicion. The cracks in their relationship begin to show and one betrays the other. Twenty-five years later, Liddy spies a figure reminiscent of her estranged friend. So begins a quest to the villa where it all went wrong and to the heart of the mystery of what happened that summer in Ischia.

Penny Feeny lives in Liverpool. Her short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, and she won the BBC World Service Short Story competition.