Through different points of view, Megan Nolan guides us through the stories linked to a brutal murder in 90s London, with tenderness and brutal honesty she brought us a poignant story of secrets, family and human failings.

Synopsis

When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell. It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the 'peasants' - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there's nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.

• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• ISBN: 9781787332508
• Number of pages: 224
• Weight: 337g
• Dimensions: 222 x 148 x 22 mm