Elise grows closer to Matt, as she struggles to find her place in Los Angeles.

Rose Simmons is adrift in her mid-thirties and still trying to decide what to do with her life. Her own mother disappeared when she was a baby and she's never known the truth of what happened to her.

When she learns that the last person to see her was Constance Holden, a reclusive novelist who withdrew from public life at the peak of her fame, Rose is drawn to the door of Connie's imposing house in search of a confession.

Novel by Jessie Burton, the bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.

Read by Rachel Shelley and Katherine Press
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2019. Show less