Darkrooms

Twenty years after nine-year-old Roisin O'Halloran walked into the Hanging Woods on the Summer Solstice of 1999 and vanished, her family and former friends are still living with the gap she left. The woods have frightened generations of children in Bannakilduf, a small town in Ireland where people keep their own counsel.

Roisin's older sister, Deedee, has just joined the police and is struggling to hold her life together. Caitlin, Roisin's childhood best friend, has drifted into petty crime. She was the last person to see Roisin before she disappeared, and she has now come home after her mother's death. Neither woman has forgotten that summer, and the two of them begin working together to learn what really happened.

Their search forces them to face old wounds, long-standing suspicion within the community, and their own shadowy pasts. Each may have played a part in Roisin's disappearance. As buried secrets from that summer begin to surface, the town's most guarded truths come under pressure.