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It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. Thirty years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens’ next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had fled a broken marriage and gone to start a new life; but now Mandy’s family is trying to reconnect, and there is no trace of her. Isla’s father, Joe, was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he’s under suspicion of murder.

2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain – a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldn’t resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going right – and as the problems mount up, Max starts to doubt her relationship as well as her decision. Is Seb all he seems to be? And why are the neighbours so evasive about the house’s previous owner?

It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, phoning from Sydney. Thirty years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens’ next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared. Joe claims he thought she had gone to start a new life; but now Mandy’s family is trying to reconnect, and there is no trace of her. Isla’s father was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and he’s under suspicion of murder.

Londra, 1997. Nel cuore della notte Isla Green viene svegliata da una telefonata. È suo padre, dallAustralia. La polizia lo sospetta per la scomparsa di una donna, la loro ex vicina di casa, avvenuta molti anni prima. Ed è stato proprio lui a vederla viva per lultima volta. Sydney, 1967. In un tranquillo sobborgo di Sydney, fatto di villette a schiera, giardini curati e bianche staccionate, due coppie vivono vicine. Louisa e Joe, immigrati dallInghilterra, con la loro bambina di quattro anni, Isla.