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Violence
Some
Domestic violence; some crime violence
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Adult situations; references to sexual violence
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild alcohol use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Gaslighting; guilt; complicity in harm; generational trauma
What this book is about
When Isla returns home to care for her aging father, she grows suspicious that a neighbor who vanished in 1967 may have met with foul play—and that people closest to her knew more than they ever admitted. Moving between present-day London and 1960s Sydney, the novel explores memory, complicity, and the things women were expected to endure in silence. Allott's atmospheric debut builds to a quietly devastating conclusion about the cost of looking away.
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Domestic violence
References to sexual violence
Themes of guilt and complicity
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