The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Thrilling transporting delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense...more than matches the power of Fullers debut... Powerful pleasing and pleasurable. Sunday Times Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below. Gils wife Ingrid has been missing presumed drowned for twelve years. A possible sighting brings their children Nan and Flora home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gils books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?