Publisher's Synopsis
From the No. 1 bestselling author of FATHER UNKNOWN As children, Beth Powell and Susan Wright spent each August together in Stratford-upon-Avon. Both girls were loners because of their unhappy family backgrounds: Susan had a live-in granny with dementia, and Beth a vicious father. Together they were happy - until fate intervened and separated them. Twenty-nine years later: Susan is a down-and-out who has shot two people in cold blood; Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her. As Beth trawls through her old friend's tragic past, she has her own demons to face. Yet the bond the women developed as children is still there and that love must be strong because for one of them, there can be no happy ending.
