This book is like an everyday tv soap opera sprinkled with Miss Marple. The storyline contains numerous characters from the neighbourhood Pine Road and their back ground stories and hopes and dreams for the future along with their baggage from their past .The three main characters Martha, Robin and Edie form an unusual friendship and their secrets unfold. Martha and her family who have moved into the area to get over a robbery in their last home. Robin a young single mum who has made some wrong choices and Edie who is desperately to start a family and become pregnant . They all combine in a middle class semi detached street