When a 10-year-old is suspected of a violent crime, her family must confront the truth about her past in a story filled with obsessions, impulses, and psychological tension about class and trauma. and Family Secrets, written by an “immense literary talent.” ” (Karl Ove Knausgaard).
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning journalism career, fierce ambition and a blatant disregard for "farmers" - ordinary people, his readers, easy fodder for the tabloids. His star seems ready to rise when he stumbles upon a sensational scoop: a child dies on a London estate, doting parents are grieving throughout the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointed at a reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Green Party. .
Deep in their hearts is Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken and once destined for a future far beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in his way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, she has nowhere to go and no chance of escape.Now, as the police hunt for suspects and the tabloids hunt for their monster, she must confront the secrets and silence that have imprisoned her family for generations.
