The Year the Swans Came

Best friends Ruth and Maidy live next door to one another. Stunningly beautiful, rich and wilful, Ruth has always insisted she will marry Pieter, Maidy’s eldest brother, only for him to vanish from their lives late one night. Is his disappearance linked to the arrival of the swans, feared as cursed and birds of ill-fortune?
What will happen when they return six years later, on the morning of Maidy’s sixteenthbirthday?