Set against a bleakly toxic educational backdrop, the start of Nina's journey tracks the shockingly incorrect years of the 1960s and 1970s. Woven into her own story, are the graphically remembered violations inflicted on her mother and her grandmother, and their devastating, lifelong repercussions. Family secrets fester and threaten to destroy lives. Some of them, will in time be shared, but others will remain tantalisingly locked, and linger to haunt the reader for months to come. It is Nina though, who is on course to discover perhaps the biggest secret of them all.