Claire and Alice had been separated as young children, when their father took Alice on a long holiday to America and never came back, splitting the family. As Claire grew up and became a solicitor she was able to afford to high private detectives, but they never found Alice. Suddenly this year though, Alice makes contact with her mum, and shortly afterwards she is back in the family house, and everyone is making up for lost time trying to reconnect.

However Claire can't really feel much for Alice, and despite being happy her sister is home, also suspects something is fishy, but the way everything is presented, the rest of her family think she is going mad.

I would give this 3.5 starts. I did find it predictable ...interesting that so many others did not. However I like this author and her style, so I still felt this book was intriguing. there were times in the beginning that you could go either way with this. But I did have a few criticisms SPOILER!!

If I didn't know Clare was a solicitor I would not have guessed. do you really just take someone's word that she is your long lost sister without checking her out?
you never find out why Leonard asked Clare in the end if Tom had showed her anything on his phone. Why would he ask that unless he knew tom had the pictures?
should clare have told Luke about Hannah's questionable paternity? Isn't she just recreating her mothers mistake?
definitely a good read.