Romola Garai

Now too busy to visit Sugar's flat, William moves her into his home as live-in mistress and governess to Sophie. Sugar quickly bonds with the lonely child and learns more about Agnes. Meanwhile, Dr. Curlew convinces William to have his wife committed.

William wants Sugar all to himself and moves her into an apartment. Now involved in his father's business, he regularly gives her money. A chance meeting at the opera convinces William's disturbed wife, Agnes, that Sugar is her guardian angel.

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant--their very last chance--in the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis. But...

Tomaz, an ex-soldier is living in a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. He starts to fall for his new companion but cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

In Timor, Mary and the other men enjoy the luxury of freedom under false identities. However, fate conspires against them as Clarke stops there on his way back to England.

Mary, her husband Will, their two children, and five other men set sail for Timor, closely followed by Clarke who obsessively pursues them. Through sheer grit and enormous luck, most of them make it 4,000 miles to the Dutch colony of Timor.