The Boy with the Blue Suitcase

At Abbey Montefiore, a makeshift asylum near the Western Front, Dr Isabel Christie is determined to unlock a damaged boy’s mind. Haunted by her own trauma, she sees hope where others see a lost cause. And then, after the boy disappears for days, Isabel makes a horrifying discovery, and one which confronts her with a terrible choice.

Decades later in Melbourne, Dr Hayley Spark is grieving the loss of her mother and her marriage, and losing touch with her young son, Ollie. When Ollie pulls an antique gun on his classmates, Hayley desperately seeks answers in a relic left to her by her mother: a battered blue suitcase. Inside, a journal, a tiny bracelet and a gorgeous watercolour start to unfold long-buried family history, including a mysterious ‘miracle’, which sparks a voyage of discovery and transformation across generations.