An outstanding, compulsively readable debut about the reverberations of a family tragedy, and its effects on a woman who crossed the family's path

Frances never expected to cross the divide between her tame life as a sub-editor and the illustrious world of the literati. Her life changes when she it witness to a fatal car crash and the reader's view of her alters as she inveigles herself into a grieving family's world for her own gain. Mesmerisingly told Sainsbury's magazine

Harriet Lane started her career at Tatler where she ended up as features editor. She subsequently went to the Observer as commissioning editor on the magazine before becoming a staff feature writer contributing to all sections. After having her second child she went freelance in 2005 and since then has written for the Guardian, Vogue, the Observer magazine, both Telegraph magazines, Easy Living, the Times and the Daily Mail (celebrity interviews, columns and arts features). Her journalism has also been syndicated internationally.