**THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF 2023**
A dead child on a London estate and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. . .
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It''s 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ''peasants'' - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and ''bad apples'': the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, broken, and once destined for a f
