Jill Dawson

It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.

In 1964 the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans....

Crime is a man's business, so they say, though not according to Queenie Dove....

Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request....

Tina returns to the village where she grew up. A moment of panic triggers a vision of her best friend, who went missing three decades ago. Tina believes she knows what happened to her....