Hilary Tailor

Some secrets should stay buried. Her husband’s won’t. Della’s life was everything she’d dreamed of: a loving husband, teenage daughter, and a peaceful cottage in the woods with her own pottery studio. But then her husband, Leo, collapses and on his deathbed makes a devastating confession...

From the bestselling author of The Vanishing Tide comes a haunting novel about the secrets we keep to protect ourselves—and those we love. Twenty years ago, during a family holiday on the savage and remote island of Little Auger, eleven-year-old Hazel left her bed and was never seen again. The...

From the bestselling author of The Vanishing Tide comes a deeply moving and haunting novel that asks: do the secrets we keep always rise to the surface? Every morning is the same for Eliza: she swims in Hampstead Ponds, diving into her memories, reliving the heady days of her teenage friendship...

What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets? Isla knows her family kept things from her. When she inherits the cliffside cottage where she spent her childhood, she must face dark shadows of her past—the mother who rejected her in favour of her art, the aunt whose death haunted...