On a humid, thundery afternoon, Laura Blundy commits an appalling act of murder. Or is it so appalling to free yourself, to run after the only passion you've ever known? Billy - fifteen years younger than her and already a father of five - has to find an answer. But he doesn't yet know that Laura also had a child whose memory will shape their future together in unimaginable ways. Julie Myerson's new novel moves through a Victorian London which is tender, murky, unsettling - a haunting love story.