The Cartographer's Daughter

About This Book

When Iris Calloway inherits a battered leather satchel containing her grandmother's hand-drawn maps, she expects little more than faded curiosities. What she discovers instead is a cartography of secrets—each carefully inked contour line hiding stories of love, loss, and a family divided by war.

Setting off through the Scottish Highlands with only the maps as her guide, Iris retraces her grandmother's footsteps across landscapes both breathtaking and treacherous. As she pieces together the fragments of a life lived in the shadow of the Second World War, Iris must confront uncomfortable truths about her family's past and the choices that echo through generations.

Eleanor Fairfax has crafted a luminous meditation on memory, belonging, and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from. At once sweeping and intimate, The Cartographer's Daughter is a novel about the maps we inherit and the ones we must draw for ourselves.