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At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children...
Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the train.
Lydia's son Gerald has also had an unhappy marriage, and he too has embarked on a series of brief, unsatisfactory affairs.
At the fractured centre of this family's relationships lies a murderous, guilty secret - a secret that will now prompt a terrible crime...