When she was nine years old Melody Brownes house burned down taking every toy every photograph every item of clothing & old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions it took with it all her memories
- Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties Melody lives in a council flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasnt seen her parents since she left home at fifteen but Melody doesnt mind shes better off on her own. Shes made a good life for herself & her son & she likes it that way. Until one night something extraordinary happens. Whilst attending a hypnotist show with her first date in years she faints
- & when she comes round she starts to remember. At first her memories mean nothing to her but then slowly day by day she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. Her journey takes her to the seaside town of Broadstairs to oddly familiar houses in London backstreets & to meetings with strangers who love her like their own. But with every mystery she solves another one materialises with every question she answers another appears. & Melody begins to wonder if shell ever know the truth about her past...