'To the outside world we were this perfectly contented happy family - a mother, a father and three little girls. And the truth Really it was a conspiracy of silence - everyone living a life on the surface while underneath reality bubbles away - until the day that it blows up...'

John and Elizabeth Dunville believe they have the ideal family. Their three daughters - beautiful, vivacious Baby, clever, industrious Becky, and lively, if mischievous, Brona - attend Dublin's most prestigious convent school, and all have bright futures. But denial and deception go hand in hand, and one night, one of the girls slips out into the December fog, and doesn't come home...