It is the swinging Sixties and the height of the Cold War. Naomi Maitland is a junior officer at a top secret government department. She is also a talented singer who secretly dreams of a glittering career in show business. On a wet winter evening she goes for a drink with friends, then walks out of the door to disappear completely.
Public opinion assumes she has defected to Moscow. Rik Sampson starts life as a piano tuner whose work brings him into contact with Naomi. But by the turn of the 21st century he has achieved minor celebrity status as a writer of children’s books, with a number of TV appearances to his credit. But he harbours a guilty secret…