A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind's eye of her childhood friend, Tina Humber, who has done her best to put the past behind her. But now, as Tina returns home for a family wedding, she replays her memories in search of what happened, fearing that deep down she has always known who killed Mandy Baker.
In this subtle, moodily atmospheric novel, Jill Dawson explores the between innocent and perverted desire, and that volatile stage when young girls become aware of their attractions, but do not grasp the dangers.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
--Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye--
"Outstanding ...an intense, intelligent and compelling book that readers will find impossible to forget"
--Daily Mail--