When Peter Hansome dies in a car crash he leaves behind a wife and mistress - but as these women confront their loss death becomes not an end but a beginning. This beguiling novel explores the mysterious power of triangles: a man, his wife and his mistress - and two other people he may have known. Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater are unconventional women and, following Peter's death, unexpectedly become friends. But who is the young Iranian boy who also befriends the two women and comes to live with Peter's widow? And what was Peter's connection to him and to his even more elusive sister?