Growing up in a strict religious family in the 1920s young Annie Lang is witness to disturbing events that no one will explain. Only the family dog may know the answers. Six years on, student Annie returns from France to find her world in disarray. Annie and sister Bea turn detective and unearth a disturbing truth.

Annie returns to France as a student only to find her brother in a mental hospital, her father often absent and her Sunday School teacher gone missing, with her investigations yielding a discovery potentially cataclysmic for all of them. For fans of Kate Atkinson and Mark Haddon.