**THE TIMES SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF 2023**A dead child on a London estate and the
finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. . . 'As much of a
compulsive read as the first' THE TIMES 'One masterful novel... Nolan has excelled herself'
TELEGRAPH 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. 'Heartbreaking
society-examining stuff' VOGUE
