It begins with a shocking act of violence. On a humid, thundery afternoon, Laura Blundy murders the man who saved her life. He is her husband, but she has a lover. Fifteen years her junior, already the father of five, Billy is a laborer-one of thousands of faceless men installing the sewers in the city of London in the mid-1800s. He is the only passion Laura has ever known, and so she pursues her obsessive dream of their life together to its dire extremes....Author Biography: Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham, England in 1960. She is the author of three previous novels, Sleepwalking, The Touch, and Me and the Fat Man. Her work has been translated into many languages.