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Iris is contacted by the psychiatric hospital telling him that one of his relatives was interned there. The hospital closed its doors, the director asked whether Iris can take care of Esme Lennox, the saeur his grandmother. The young woman is not the end of surprises because his paternal grandmother had never spoken to him about this saeur interned for sixty years. Iris met Esme and decided to stay in her home. A grandmother suffering from Alzheimer, a deceased father when she was a child, Iris has no one to provide explanations.

Ah, what a pleasure to read again Maggie O'Farrell! From the first lines, I was captivated by this novel and I did not let go! Esme and Kitty older sister spent their childhood in India. On the death of their brother, their parents decided to return to Edimboug Scotland. Esme has trouble bending the rules, conventions of high society of those 1930s At sixteen, she was interned without his parents opposed. And it is the same that is found Esme sixty years later. A woman enjoying elderly with joy and awkwardness of freedom to next to Iris and represses his fear of being detained again. Iris has questions about Esme. Why she interned? Was there a reason and if so: Esme is she crazy? Gradually, confidence is established between them. Cleverly constructed, alternating past and present, the novel gives us the account of a third person. But, I say no more!

Throughout the pages, the truth is emerging. First distinct and blurred and odious.
I read this novel in one sitting! As in this hand took mine, I was railway through writing and style of Maggie O'Farrell. A book strong and very well done on a dreadful topic ...