A darkly atmospheric, richly layered psychological suspense debut set on a Greek island during one long hot summer.
Under the Greek shimmering sea, deep dark secrets lie just beneath the surface...
1960.
Shy eighteen-year-old Jean is resigned to yet another long empty summer stretching out before her, working for her father at the stables and dreaming of a life so different from her own.
Manchester, 1960.
When you’re young, unmarried and pregnant, in a shaming society that will never understand, there’s only one place left to go. St Ann’s mother and baby home.
That’s how restless Joan, who dreams of a glamorous new life in the Big Smoke, finds herself shut away with two unlikely new roommates: spirited Megan and timid country-girl Caroline, who fell pregnant on her first time. Abandoned by their families, they have no one to rely on but each other, as they wait out the days before they birth their babies — only to be parted from them forever.
On a sultry May night, before the stroke of midnight, three baby girls are born — and given away to three eagerly waiting families.