Publisher's Synopsis
"A captivating read" WOMAN'S OWN Living with her adored brother Christian, thirty-four-year-old Esther Fairchild divides her time between illustrating children's books, nightly shifts as a waitress, weekly visits to her father and fortnightly meetings with her married lover. Then one day she encounters a face in the crowd which jolts her out of her mundane existence. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were left to fend for themselves. Into this shambolic world came Donovan - regularly deposited by his unreliable mother - and Penny, Christian's girlfriend. Until tragedy struck. But now, it seems, their lives are about to become intertwined once more...
