Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2018. Secondhand wear at book extremities, otherwise good secondhand condition.

In this beguiling and mysterious narrative is the story of Nathaniel and his sister Rachel. In 1945, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, left in the care of a mysterious figure. A dramatic story in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.