From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and
revenge set in Victorian England Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... London 1850. On a
freezing winter's night a baby is abandoned at the gates of a park only to be saved by a young
policeman and taken to the Foundling Hospital. After suffering years of brutal hardship at the
Hospital Lily is released into the world of Victorian London. But she is hiding a dreadful
secret... When Lily and the policeman meet again Lily is convinced that he holds the key to
her happiness. But might he also be the one to uncover her crime and so condemn her to death?
'Enthralling... Tremain evokes Victorian London with visceral intensity in a gripping and
deeply humane novel exploring themes of rejection poverty guilt and redemption' Observer
