TOMORROW'S PAST London's Kentish Town in the middle years of the 20th century teems with life, where everyone knows everyone else and every life is interwoven in an intricate web. When Annie Turner, one of its inhabitants, finds a brooch in her mother's wardrobe, she learns some disturbing truths about her family. THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Desperate to start a family, Lucy agrees to be interviewed about her experience of infertility. The journalist is Vita, a friend from her childhood, and the chance meeting revives memories for Lucy. But she realizes some remain beyond her grasp; who was the child who died and why?