Andrew and Freda Dawson are enjoying a happy, second marriage in the English countryside with their collective brood of three children. But their idyllic existence is shattered when Freda finds her husband dead one evening . . .

It becomes apparent his death was not from natural causes and all evidence points to suicide, but there are lingering doubts about Freda's role in the death . . . and about the possible role her precocious son Luke could have played.

Carnegie Medal winning author Noel Streatfeild delves into the cracks of a seemingly perfect marriage in her interwar family novel, Luke