Alice finally has her baby, but does she want her? Barbara does. But with fathers and stepfathers removing themselves, or being removed, from the scene, who will help her bring up Jessica? David, William, Matthew? The bathroom delivery guy? There are just as many anxieties and obsessions in the second book in the Northern Neurosis series, but now there are added dangers as a murderer lurks in the shadows.'I'm going back into therapy,' said the man who'd just come out of three weeks' hiding after reading the first book in the series, Misconception.'I always thought Worsley was such a safe place to live,' said one person who'd never heard of Worsley before.‘Have the Russians recruited a band of cormorants to cause trouble in Salford. Or is that just fake news?’ asked a local newspaper reporter.