The sequel to The House by the Dvina. This book completes the story with Eugenie Fraser's first return visit to Russia 50 years after her family fled to Scotland due to the Revolution. However, it was to be another 18 years before she was allowed to visit Archangel and make contact with some of her surviving relatives, and revisit the haunts of her childhood. Everything was different - the house by the Dvina destroyed, the city changed out of recognition, and many of her relatives had disappeared. Only the Dvina remained.