The Dark Circle

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End
teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been
suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of
the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force
officers, a car salesman, a young university graduate, a mysterious German
woman, a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They
discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting
wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.