From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, an exquisite entertainment in which nothing is quite as it seems. ‘At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief.’ London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a train bound for Scotland.