兩位來自當代倫敦的女孩，伊薇與瑪麗安。她們一開始互不熟悉，卻因為一份神秘的家族資料夾，發現彼此的祖母曾在百年前的印度，有著深厚的情誼。跨越時間與距離，兩段友情悄悄連結在一起。本書以孩子的眼光，細膩刻畫身份、家族與友誼的探索，是一段從過去延續到現在，關於理解與連結的溫暖旅程。The evocative and moving story of two very different girls in contemporary London who discover a family connection stretching back over 100 years before in the faraway country of India, at a tumultous time in its history; friendships spanning the centuries. A wonderful middle-grade story of two sets of friends, with 100 years distance from each other and on different sides of the world, yet with an unimaginable connection.Evie and Maryam are in the same class at school, uneasily thrown together at the start of a new term as they start a project together looking into their family trees. The two girls don't think they have much in common - Maryam feels like an outsider school with the other girls whose parents all seem to know each other, and Evie thinks Maryam is a bit odd. But when the two girls each find the same mysterious folder containing document
