Lisa is a young mother who is escaping her abusive husband by escaping from London to the wilds of Yorkshire with her son. A parallel tale is also told alongside Lisa's about a young girl who lived in the house some years before who was brought up by her ex-soldier father in a subsistence lifestyle. The plot of the story seems to hold all the right elements of danger, abuse, and people who are not what they seem to be but I'm afraid that I didn't find the writing style to my taste. So much of the book was about how scared Lisa was, how worthless her abusive husband had left her feeling, how much the kid disliked her etc etc. I felt the plot barely moved on at all for most of the middle of the book.