When Beatrice (Bee) gets the news that her younger sister Tess, a bohemian artist living has killed herself, she cannot believe it and returns home to he UK where she moves into Tess’s apartment to live Tess’s life, trying to find who murdered Tess and convince the police to continue investigating Tess’s death. Told in the form of a letter to Tess, the narrative shifts back and forth between the present, an interview Bee is giving to the magistrate and Tess’s last few weeks. Bee knows Tess was pregnant and very excited to be; what she learns upon arrival in the UK is that Tess’s baby was likely to be born with cystic fibrosis, the disease that killed their younger brother as a child. Bee learns that Tess actually gave birth to a stillborn son a few days before her disappearance and that she had been involved in a clinical trial involving the cystic fibrosis, a trial Bee now finds questionable. Tense and moodily written, readers will see Bee go through several stages from grief, to anger, to helplessness as she wonders what she could have done to save Tess. Rosamund Lupton’s prose is very eloquent, as evidenced by phrases such as “grief is love turned into an eternal missing." Not only a suspenseful mystery, but a beautifully written psychological profile of two sisters.
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