A wild girl who once climbed on rooves. A secret never spoken. A catastrophe that changed everything.

Frances adored and feared her beautiful, unpredictable mother. No one ever explained the sudden rages or the silence that settled over the family.

Years later, now a composer, Frances looks back, searching her memories for the truth. As fragments of the past come into focus, she begins to uncover the hidden life her mother never revealed - a childhood of freedom and defiance, and a wound that shaped everything that followed.

Luminous and deeply affecting, The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves is a powerful novel from Sue Woolfe about mothers and daughters, memory and silence, and the mysterious ways creativity can emerge from experience.