The Nanny kept me in white-knuckled suspense until the very last page. Gilly Macmillan's
breakout thriller is a dark and twisted version of Downton Abbey gone very very wrong. - Tess
Gerritsen New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author of What She
Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people
will go to hurt one another. When her beloved nanny Hannah left without a trace in the summer
of 1988 seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss Jo grew up bitter and
distant and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall their faded aristocratic home behind.
Thirty years later Jo returns to the house and is forced to confront her troubled relationship
with her mother. But when human remains are accidentally uncovered in a lake on the estate Jo
begins to question everything she thought she knew. Then an unexpected visitor knocks on the
door and Jo's world is destroyed again. Desperate to piece together the gaping holes in her
memory Jo must uncover who her nanny really was why she left and if she can trust her own
mother... In this compulsively readable tale of secrets lies and deception Gilly Macmillan
explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever The Nanny
reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you'd rather hear the lie.
