Jewell, Lisa
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol
England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you. As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school
Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all--including Joey Mullen
his new neighbor
who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret
but Tom's teenaged son Freddie--a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5--excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father. One of Tom's students
Jenna Tripp
also lives on the same street
and she's not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing
he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate
and Jenna's mother--whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years--is convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her. Meanwhile
twenty years earlier
a schoolgirl writes in her diary
charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam.