Publisher's Synopsis
One summer's day, Ismay's stepfather, Guy, was found dead in the bath. Now, nine years on, she and her sister Heather still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, has disappeared... Ismay works in public relations, and Heather in catering. They get on well. They always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what had happened that day in August... But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.
