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Adopted as a child, Philippa Palfrey had a best of everything. But at eighteen, she wanted more: the identity of her real parents. Having always fantisized that she was the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid, she wasn't prepared for the shocking truth. And she was even less equipped to meet her mother...and rekindle ties that would trigger event more terrifying than either of them could have imagined...
"P. D. James has burst the bounds of her territory...and written a novel that is subtle, rich, allusive...most cunningly plotted...we are held in a tingling suspense."
--New York Times
Adopted as a child, Philippa Palfrey had a best of everything. But at eighteen, she wanted more: the identity of her real parents. Having always fantisized that she was the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid, she wasn't prepared for the shocking truth. And she was even less equipped to meet her mother...and rekindle ties that would trigger event more terrifying than either of them could have imagined...
"P. D. James has burst the bounds of her territory...and written a novel that is subtle, rich, allusive...most cunningly plotted...we are held in a tingling suspense."
--New York Times
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