<p><b>The second novel from the Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of <i>Unsettled Ground </i></b><b>explores the mysterious truths of a troubled marriage and the ripples it creates.</b><br><br><i>''Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.''</i><br><br> Twelve years ago Flora''s mother Ingrid disappeared, vanishing from a Dorset beach, presumed drowned. Everyone - especially her sister and father Gil - believes Ingrid is long dead. Everyone, except Flora. So when she hears that her father has had an accident, and is insisting that he saw his wife, Floral rushes home.<br><br>But the answers she seeks are nowhere to be found - only further questions:<br><br>Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil''s books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?<br><br><b>''Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sen