Outside the Ordinary World

Sylvia Sandon always swore she wouldn't become her mother. But one August morning she finds herself walking the same path...into an affair she feels powerless to resist. Against the backdrop of California bush fires in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Sylvia had agreed to hold a secret that would devour her family's dream of happiness. Now struggling to create a better life, Sylvia nonetheless feels caught in the coils of history