Three narrators tell this story. India Grayson is only 8 when her beloved father suddenly vanishes. Now 15 and seriously anorexic, she thinks she heard his voice on a crowded station. She sets out to find him. Mother, Tonya, is torn between mollifying her troubled daughter, and her grave doubts about the man she married - was he involved in some way with the disappearance of teenage girls? Chris Taylor is a grieving parent struggling to find security in a florist shop in London, who takes in a runaway teenager. Every indication is that Chris is a middle-aged woman but in the last quarter of the book she is revealed to be India's father who has become a transgender woman. Though reunited they must find a way to resolve deep seated tensions.