A month had crawled by with no sign of Aliyah. Marion had searched everywhere, every street they had walked together, every place she loved, even her old neighbourhood. But it was as if she had vanished from the face of the earth. No one had seen or heard from her. Emma cried constantly, unable to bear seeing her brother slowly lose himself in the silence Aliyah left behind.

Then one morning, a package arrived.

Marion sat at the breakfast table, his eyes sunken, his fingers wrapped around a ...