Mystery/Thriller -- 4 1/2 stars
When the Harrington's beautiful London home goes up in flames, Mrs. Harrington, her two children, and Rita, their nanny, escape to a rarely used country estate while repairs are being made. A peaceful, healing summer is interrupted by two unrelated and unexpected occurrences--an abandoned baby, and a dead body. Forty years later, one member of that tortured household is hurled back to that summer and the story she doesn't remember. ----- Populated with characters who carry their flaws like armor, this is a book with so many intertwined threads, and secrets so well hidden, that it takes a master story teller to gently untangle each knot, lay them out in order, and then reconnect them in a way that makes complete sense. The reconnection is so subtle that you're halfway there before you realize what Ms. Chase has wrought. The coincidences may not be entirely elegant, but endings are rarely this satisfying.
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