<p><H4><b>A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB FAVOURITE</b></H4><br><H4><b>AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON</b></H4><br>''Sophisticated, suspenseful, unsettling'' <b>Lee Child</b><br><br>''Grips like a vice'' <i><b>Daily Mail</b></i><br><br>''Compulsive''<b> Rosamund Lupton</b><br><br>''Moving, insightful'' <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br>___________<br><br>Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy.<br><br>As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian''s troubled home life, Daniel thinks back to his own childhood in foster care - and to Minnie, the woman whose love saved him, until she, too, betrayed him so badly that he cut her out of his life.<br><br>But what crime did Minnie commit that made Daniel disregard her for fifteen years? And will Daniel''s identification with a child on trial for murder make him question everything he ever believed in?<b