Stella is a psychotherapist who, twenty years earlier, lost her daughter Alice who was a year old at the time. Alice disappeared suddenly while they were on holiday. At the time she was a teenager in a relationship with Daniel, Alice's father. They never found a body and Stella was never able to put her daughter into the past.

Into her practices walks Isabelle, who bears a striking resemblance to Daniel's sister. She is sure that Isabelle is Alice. From this point life becomes rather chaotic for her and those around her. She sometimes makes poor decisions and sometimes the people who love her don't believe her when she tells them things that have happened to her. We are all human and make mistakes but these ones seem to cause more problems than solve. Well, the story goes on and it's not without some getting hurt further. But I find many of the characters quite sympathetic so I can kind of see why they might do as they have done.

Overall this was a good book and I give it a 3.5 star rating.