The Hiding Place

When Marina moves into 24 Harrington Gardens, she has an ulterior motive.

Marina is adopted. She’s always known this - but the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. Baby Blue, the newspapers nicknamed her at the time, after she’d been found, wrapped in a blue shawl, in the hallway of a large shared house in London. Despite a nationwide appeal, no one came forward to claim her.

24 Harrington Gardens. That was the house. And it’s still standing now Marina is an adult; still split into flats. And one of them is to let. Of course, Marina knows that the chances of her uncovering the truth about her birth are remote - but she hopes the house might hold some clues. What if it’s not just the house, though? What if someone connected to it knows what really happened that day?

A story about luck - or the lack of it - and long buried secrets and lies, The Hiding Place is the gripping and thought-provoking third novel from Jenny Quintana, author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret.