Publisher's Synopsis
Twenty-first-century London draws in thousands of immigrants, filling the spaces unwanted by the legitimate majority - invisible, untraceable and powerless. So a murdered girl, fished from Hampstead Ponds one morning, could be anyone... Here is Job, driving mini-cabs illegally, his wife lives in Zimbabwe; Ian, the supply teacher, a South African exile; New Yorker Katie, jilted, and impoverished; and fifteen-year-old Ukrainian Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. And Polly Noble, an immigrant lawyer, the descendant of Jewish refugees, knows how easy it is to fall through the cracks. Yet when her au pair, Irene, disappears, Polly hardly imagines that her own needs and beliefs have dragged her family into a world of danger, deceit and terror, which will threaten not only her home, but London itself.
