Beloved Tarot reader Madame Imelda Burova is retiring from her booth on the Brighton seafront, and—after a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets—she is ready to have a life for herself. But in this novel by the author of The Keeper of Lost Things, she still has to fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends had their whole lives still before them. In London, Billie has lost her job and her marriage, when an unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail which leads directly to Madame Burova's door.