Three people brought together in a small northern town by fate and the mistakes of the past: seven-year-old Clara, whose sister has stormed out of the house and disappeared; newly divorced, newly unemployed and newly arrived Liam; and Elizabeth, who at the end of her life is meditating on a crime committed decades ago.

By turns gripping and darkly funny, this novel uncovers the layers of grief and remorse and love that connect us.