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Maggie O'Farrellis fascinating and critically-acclaimed medieval story of family secrets and the irrepressible independence that reality provides   Stylish and impartial, Iris Lockhart is maintaining her vintage-clothing store in Glasgow (and evading her married partner) when she gets a sensational telephone call: her great-grandmother Esme—whom she never understood existed—is released from Cauldstone Clinic, where she's been locked away for significantly more than sixty years. Iris’s grandma Kitty usually stated to be an only child. But Esme’s documents show she's Kitty’s sibling, and Iris can easily see the darkness of her dad in Esme’s encounter. Esme hasbeen tagged harmless—sane sufficient to coexist with the remainder of the world—but sheis still fundamentally a stranger, a relative concealed away when she leaves the ward who'll certainly provide strategies with her.