As her eightieth birthday approaches, Odile Annesley, who has been living alone in France for forty years, contacts her scattered grandchildren to give them details of her will. The five granddaughters see it as the perfect opportunity for a family get together abroad. Solid Clemency, the perfect wife and mother; London property dealer, Madeleine; Paris dress designer, Elodie; academic Canadian Isabelle; poor, deprived Cherie, the misfit. And Harry, the golden boy. Each has grown up in their own world but like all families, the shared characteristics are there. The the killing starts, the sec rets start to spill and it is clear that one of them is very different indeed.
