The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. The novel opens on Libby’s 25th birthday, when she receives a mysterious letter stating that she has inherited a mansion in Chelsea. Adopted as a baby, Libby grew up not knowing much about her biological family. Albans, England, where she works for a luxury kitchen design company. I hugely enjoyed it and couldnt put it down. Libby is a 25-five-year-old woman living in St. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well-and she is on a collision course to meet them. It’s an intriguing, claustrophobic and compelling mystery about a family that comes to stay and refuses to leave. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. A stunning psychological thriller with a dark family story at its centre. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life.
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