trade-size paperback.

from the back cover:
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. Your neighbors have been living here for generations and you trust them implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really?

When a father's schizophrenic break ends in tragedy, Clare absconds with her two daughters, Grace and Pip, to the idyllic Virginal Park. Clare soon befriends stay-at-home mother Adele and her devastatingly charming husband, Leo, and the girls become enmeshed in a clique of neighborhood children. Everyone seems so welcoming.

Then one midsummer night, during a neighborhood party, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Nice enough read, though with an unsettling ending.

Sent on to someone who had this on their wish list.

Thank you so much for sending this wishlist book! It looks like a good read. 🙂