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They keep coming back,\u003cbr\u003e echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDublin, 1943\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Actress Julia Bridges disappears.\u003cbr\u003e Her body is never found.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDublin, 1968\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in a back garden.\u003cbr\u003e Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the \u003ci\u003eIrish Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e, investigates the mystery of Julia’s disappearance, drawing her into the tangled underworld of the illegal abortion industry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut some stories remain a mystery for a reason, and it’s not long before this one stirs up buried secrets from Nicoletta’s own past. Secrets that perhaps should stay buried . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time'\u003cb\u003e JOHN BANVILLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Atmospheric and absorbing, . . . A dark and turbulent journey to unexpected truths’ \u003cb\u003eVAL McDERMID\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A dark, gorgeously-written thriller’\u003cb\u003e NICCI FRENCH \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Atmospheric, authentic, and almost unbearably poignant . . .  transports the reader back in time while holding up a mirror to the present. 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When she’s approached by a barrister, Louise Leonard, whose aunt has just died, she’s drawn into a story that could have dangerous consequences. Was Helen Leonard murdered, as her niece thinks? 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Coughlan digs deeply into the dark side, Ireland's horrifying record around women and childbearing – but at the same time the book brings to life, in fine, tender, vivid detail, the rich atmosphere of 1960s Dublin' \u003cb\u003eTANA FRENCH \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping and brilliantly atmospheric, and Nicoletta Sarto, the novel's protagonist – the way she talks, the way she thinks – is a great invention' \u003cb\u003eRODDY DOYLE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Atmospheric and absorbing, an ambitious young journalist finds herself at the heart of a corkscrew tale she never knew existed. A dark and turbulent journey to unexpected truths' \u003cb\u003eVAL McDERMID \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dark, gorgeously written thriller, its tap root deep in a past so vividly evoked, you can see and smell and feel it' \u003cb\u003eNICCI FRENCH \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Atmospheric, authentic, and almost unbearably poignant. 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