THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt each other.

When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summertime of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo was raised bitter and distant, and eventually remaining her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind.

Thirty years later on, Jo returns to the home and it is forced to about The Nanny: A Novel confront her stressed relationship with her mother. However when human remains are unintentionally uncovered in a lake on the estate, Jo begins to issue everything she thought she knew.

Then an unexpected visitor knocks about the door and Jo’s world is destroyed again. Desperate to piece together the gaping holes in her memory space, Jo must uncover who her nanny actually was, why she remaining, and if she can trust her own mother…

Within this compulsively listenable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires from the human heart. Diabolically smart, The Nanny reminds us that occasionally the truth hurts a lot you’d rather hear the lie.