
"The finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carre." The Independent Eleven-year-old Marianne Cadogan lives a lonely life with her stern, often absent father in a big house by the sea. When, one day, a stranger rescues Marianne from the rising tide, she...

"A world class, first-rate novel" Elizabeth George "A moving, shocking, compelling psychological drama with a mesmerising plot... impossible to put down and, once read, impossible to forget" Booklist After rescuing Marianne Cadogan from an incoming...

A mysterious and misunderstood loner living on the fringes of a small English coastal community rescues and then abducts a young girl. Reprint.
