Everybody has their secrets.

Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man?s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family?s holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerized by two children in a school playground, children she?s never met but whose names she knows well? All will be revealed . . . but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again.

Everybody has their secrets

Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man?s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family?s holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerized by two children in a school playground?children she?s never met but whose names she knows well? All will be revealed . . . but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again.