Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. Thirty years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens' next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared. Isla's father Joe was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he's under suspicion of murder. Isla unwillingly plans to go back to Australia for the first time in a decade to support her father. The more Isla asks about the past, the more she learns about both young couples and the secrets each marriage bore. And is there another secret in this community which has held them in a conspiracy of silence?
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