Once Upon a Book Club book Rita is nanny to the glamorous Harringtons’ two children. A small-town girl raised by her grandmother, she fell in love with the seemingly perfect London family. The tragedy strikes. With the clan reeling, Mrs. Harrington, the children, and Rita are sent the Foxcote Manor for the summer to recuperate far from prying eyes. But when a baby is abandoned just outside their gate, the family takes her in and will never be the same. Within days a person will lie dead in the woods, and a society scandal explodes. Decades later, Londoner Sylvie has holes in her family history and an urgent need for answers. Overcoming her own deep-rooted fear of what she might find, she sets out to discover the truth and unpick her mother’s little white lies. But the past is already far closer than she can imagine.