Publisher's Synopsis
Liverpool, 1925. Fourteen-year-old Lillian Taylor has spent her childhood in a loveless orphanage. When a well-dressed young woman claiming to be her aunt arrives and whisks her away to her large townhouse, Lillian hopes it signals a change in her fortunes Ireland, 1954. Best friends Blaise and Clodagh are preparing for their new life training as nurses in England. Through a chance encounter, Blaise meets Lillian Taylor and after struggling with her duties at St Thomas's Hospital, Blaise hopes that being a private nurse for Lillian's grandson will signal the fresh start she's been hoping for. But when a mysterious man appears one day, Blaise realises long-hidden skeletons are about to finally come out of the cupboard.
