Publisher's Synopsis
A four-year-old child vanishes without a trace from a wild stretch of shoreline in North Norfolk. His body is never found. Liam is busking quietly on a street in Cambridge when a wealthy woman befriends him, daring to hope that he is the son who vanished twelve years ago. Laura Principal is called in to settle the question of identity. Is this beautiful youth really the lost child or is he an interloper? As she searches for answers in this chilling story of identity, devotion and death, Laura comes face to face with a loss that threatens to shatter her own world. "One of the most stylish, thoughtful and challenging novelists around." Ian Rankin
