How much can the loss of one, the eternal love, weigh? How much do the past and the unconfessed actions of the people living beside us stain our lives?

The young Alice Rikes boards the 6:30 morning train departing from London to Scotland, her birthplace. Six hours later, the terrible image she sees in the mirror at Waverley Station in Edinburgh disturbs her psyche and forces her to return on the next train to London.

And that very night, in an endless dance of sensations and hallucinations, she finds herself hovering between emptiness and light. The faces around her, with their hidden or open secrets and their personal truths about life and love, change all the parameters of her existence.

Two truths collide before her: one is hidden behind a mirror and the other deep within her heart. The solution will emerge where human weaknesses and guilt end, at the moment when the longing for life surpasses the past and shows her the way...

The book captivates you... O'Farrell has the gift of weaving stories.