'None of it matters now I have the child'. This is how Sarah introduces her story. When we first meet her, she is winding up an unsatisfactory job - teaching English at a French university - and preparing to leave the cottage in which she has been living with her baby daughter, Hannah. In her recent past, there has been Hannah's father, now back in America, and before that, other unreliable men. But now Sarah is on her own, with Hannah as her sole companion and focus of loving attention. So it seems. But as the story unfolds, the foundations on which Sarah's apparent happiness have been resting begin to crumble with shocking effect.