Camilla Evans

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

A burnt-out British spy becomes the recipient of tapes implicating senior MI-6 officers in some light treason. Before he even knows what he has, most of his office has already been killed.

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh mountain, as they were during the Second World War. Soon after Quentin is settled in North Wales admittedly more at home in a cave among his paintings than he is with other people he unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that wake up this sleepy, charming town. After mistaking local boy Dylan Hughes for an art history genius, Quentin finds himself in the middle of mayhem.

1945年、第二次世界大戦末期のイギリス、チャネル諸島のジャージー島。グレースは、この島に建つ広大な屋敷に娘アンと息子ニコラスと3人だけで暮らしていた。夫は戦地に向かったまま未だ戻らず、今までいた使用人たちもつい最近突然いなくなってしまった。屋敷は光アレルギーの子どもたちを守るため昼間でも分厚いカーテンを閉め切り薄暗い。そこへある日、使用人になりたいという3人の訪問者が現れる。使用人の募集をしていたグレースはさっそく彼らを雇い入れるが、それ以来屋敷では奇妙な現象が次々と起こりグレースを悩ませ始める……。