4.5 stars 
 Beautifully written, compelling and moving. It took me a while to finish it, (alas, I was stuck with a boring read I had forced myself not to abandon) but at a certain point of the story I felt like this book was hunting me like a ghost, like a long forgotten secret that needed to be told and afterwards I could no longer put it down. I really enjoyed the historical setting: London during WW II portrayed through Jimmy's war photos seemed so realistic to me that I felt like I was reading a book in sepia. As for the wide range of characters, while Laurel, Vivien and Dolly's personalities, as expected, were exhaustively drawn, the same holds true with minor characters like Laurel's sisters and father, as much as Vivien's long lost Australian family. As the mistery slowly unravelled, I got more and more caught into its twists and turns. In the end, and let me add, once again, Kate Morton didn't let me down.