How far would you go to save your reputation? The
stunning new noir thriller from the author of the
bestselling The Missing One and The Other
Child.
If you had the perfect life . . .
how far would you go to protect it?
Professor
Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life of her
dreams, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and
historian, three children, and a talented
husband.
Only one other person knows that Olivia's
perfect life is in fact a desperate tangle of lies: Vivian
Tester, the socially awkward, middle-aged housekeeper of a
Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary of a pioneering
female surgeon on which Olivia's new biography is
based.
In a gripping narrative that shifts between
London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, Olivia and
Vivian will learn knife-edged truths about themselves and
discover just how far each will go to protect her
reputation.