“Brilliant…an astonishing first novel”
Bernard Cornwell

“A classic of its genre. Every page adds yet another layer of intrigue to its plot. Gripping stuff.”
Sunday Independent


Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to tie up loose ends in her old age, but Lena becomes frightened that something more threatening lies behind the call, and she sets off on a journey to Ireland, with her best friend, to find her daughter's birth parents.