When Ella Turner moves with her husband to Lisle-sur-Tarn, a small town in southwestern France, she hopes to qualify to practice as a midwife as well as to start a family of her own. Instead she is disrupted by less-than-idyllic village life and strange dreams of the colour blue. Haunted by sleepless nights, Ella tries to forge a bond with her new home by investigating her French ancestors. 16th