Waters, Sarah

Dr. Faraday, a country physician, is called to see a patient at Hundreds Hall, the dilapidated residence of the Ayres family, but Faraday begins to wonder, as he spends time in the house, if the Ayres could be haunted by more than family conflicts and the changes of society.

Margaret Prior, assigned to visit the women's ward of Victorian London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work for a suicide attempt, is drawn into a dark romance with spiritualist Selina Dawes who has been jailed after a seance she was conducting went horribly wrong.

In 1940's London, three women and a young man find their lives connected in surprising ways as they struggle to cope with the horror, violence, and tragedy of the war.

Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lilly.