Rebecca, Vani, and Bethany were teenagers when it happened; poor, young and vulnerable. The powerful men who hurt them have moved on with their lives, but Rebecca cannot, despite her friends’ warnings. She wants revenge on the men who ruined her life, even though she’s not even completely sure who they are, let alone how to get to them.
Then at the National Gallery in London, one of the world’s most famous women has a very public breakdown at a charity gala. And across the Atlantic, in a lab at MIT a Nigerian scientist makes the discovery she has been working towards her whole career, a breakthrough that will change the world as we know it.
And Rebecca realises that perhaps the men who harmed her are not so untouchable after all…
Caroline Campbell was born and educated in Belfast. She read Modern History at University College, Oxford, and subsequently received an MA and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute, on the iconography of 15th century Florentine cassoni. She was Print Room Supervisor in the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1998-2000); Curatorial Assistant (2000-01) and Assistant Curator of Renaissance Paintings (2001-05) at the National Gallery, London. Caroline joined the Courtauld as Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings in 2005.