The news of her mother's death hits Nell as if she's been shot. The letter must be some kind of prank, but who could be so cruel? Because Nell's mother died nearly 30 years ago. When Nell was just a tiny baby, her parents died in a car crash, leaving her to be raised by her devoted grandmother, Lilian. So when the lawyer's letter arrives, informing her of her mother Sarah's very recent death, it destroys everything Nell thought she knew. Her grandmother...

Marina is adopted. She's always known this - but the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. Baby Blue, the newspapers nicknamed her at the time, after she'd been found wrapped in a blue shawl, in the hallway of a large, shared house in London. 24 Harrington Gardens. That was the house. And it's still standing now Marina is an adult; still split into flats. And one of them is to let. Of course, Marina knows that the chances of her uncovering...

New York, Autumn, 1907. Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other?s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they?re moving...