Books and Book reading – The new Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan

The roots of a sycamore tree had grown around the skeleton of a woman, aged somewhere between twenty-five and thirty. And she had carried a child . . .’

Intelligence Officer Gus Clifton returns to London at the end of the Second World War, bringing with him Krista. His German wife who he secretly married while in Berlin. For Gus’s sisters Krista is the enemy and his marriage is a terrible betrayal for Nella, Gus’s loyal fiancée. The three women wonder what hold Krista has over decent, honourable Gus and they start to ask themselves what they will need to do get her permanently out of their lives.