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Chapters (45)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Lisa Hall
  3. About the Author
  4. Also by Lisa Hall
  5. Note to Readers
  6. Dedication
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Chapter Twenty
  27. Chapter Twenty-One
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  34. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  35. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  36. Chapter Thirty
  37. Chapter Thirty-One
  38. Chapter Thirty-Two
  39. Chapter Thirty-Three
  40. Acknowledgements
  41. Extract
  42. Prologue
  43. Chapter One
  44. Chapter Two
  45. About the Publisher

I know what this is. Suddenly, it all seems so clear. The dream, the way it feels like a memory as though I have lived it before. It’s not a dream, it’s not a memory. It’s an echo. Agnes lost her child, and she took revenge, and she’s carried on doing that for four hundred years. I think of Lillian Sparks being hauled away, one child dead, the other kept from her forever, all because of Agnes and her inability to leave, her insistence on repeating the past over and over.

How long do I have? I look at the clock on the kitchen wall, my head seeming to move as if in slow motion. Everything feels heavy, blurry, as if underwater. Rav won’t let me go. If I stay here, Agnes will always be there, watching, waiting, ready to take her moment to take them from me forever, just like she did to Lillian Sparks’s children. Lillian’s baby died, and Elsie never saw her mother again. There is only one solution.