Originally published: London : Headline Review, 2010.
Summary:
Maddie McGlade, a former nanny now in her nineties, writes a series of letters in which she unburdens herself of a secret she has kept for over seventy years about the death of four-year-old Charlotte Ormond, which alternate with excerpts from the prison diaries of Charlotte's mother Harriet, Maddie's one-time employer and mistress of an Irish estate, who was held responsible for the child's death.
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