Joe Fortune, a Jewish GP, has been married to Anna, his Aryan beauty, for twenty years, in a relationship of great passion and happiness. But in the shadows of their lives, dark secrets are hidden. Joe has long nurtured a desire to murder Gordon, Anna's father - a motive born of past events and involving revenge, mutual hatred, and Gordon's deep prejudice. Anna too is hiding deep, painful secrets... Whilst the powerful Joe is revealed as angry and resentful, in a highly charged expose Anna's quiet dignity discloses her own extraordinary and shocking revelations. Contemporary women's fiction.