Nine-year-old Lilly Blackwood has lived all of her young life locked in an attic room, where her parents say she must be kept for her own protection. They tell her she is a monster and must never be seen by anyone, and indeed she ends up in a circus "freak show" in the year 1931.
The story then shifts to eighteen-year-old Julia Blackwood in the year 1956, who has run away from home to escape her own intolerable parents. Are they the same people who imprisoned poor Lilly? The reader must wait until the end of the story to find out how these two women are related.
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