Amy, a journalist, wants to write an article about Farthington House, a place she remembers from her childhood. While visiting the house with the new heir, Kyle, she discovers a small painting of a woman who looks just like her. From then on, Amy and Kyle dig into the past to find the truth. This book is one of the 2026 Quick Reads \u2014 short stories written to encourage reading among those who don’t usually read much. The story is intriguing, even if it is not difficult to understand the plot, and it is a little sappy at the end, but it is perfect for a very warm Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’d been through all the necklaces now. I leaned over the shoebox then reached in and picked out a small jeweller’s box from amongst the jumble of items at the bottom. It fitted snugly in my hands as I pulled it open. Inside, lying on a velvet pad, Gran’s wedding ring gleamed, the gold worn thin by years of wear. A little packet of folded tissue had been tucked next to it. I laid the box with the ring to one side, then quickly unwrapped the packet to reveal a scrap of cardboard with a silver chain wound round it. Unwinding the short chain, I realized what hung on it. Amy, a journalist, wants to write an article about Farthington House, a place she remembers from her childhood. While visiting the house with the new heir, Kyle, she discovers a small painting of a woman who looks just like her. From then on, Amy and Kyle dig into the past to find the truth. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[291],"tags":[31,13,114],"class_list":["post-21940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2026","tag-family","tag-resilience","tag-secrets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/museum-of-new-zealand-te-papa-tongarewa-dBjUWzn4cYQ-unsplash-scaled-e1782134453768.jpg?fit=2074%2C1348&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21942,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions\/21942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It was a little silver pendant of a bird in flight, the silver enamelled with cornflower blue.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"