Philippa Rose Palfrey

Philippa Palfrey is an eighteen-year-old girl who was adopted when she was eight years old. Philippa has no memory of her life before the adoption, therefore she has created a fantasy about her birth parents based on the thin amount of information she has been offered by her adoptive parents. However, when Philippa files with the courts to get her original birth certificate, she learns that everything she was told and has come to believe was not true. Philippa is the daughter of a couple who were convicted ten years previously of raping and killing a twelve year old girl. Philippa's biological mother is about to be released from prison and Philippa decides she wants to meet her and to share a flat for a few months in order to get some idea of where she came from and who she is.

Philippa has never felt...