Elizabeth and the still-married Robert go on holiday to Dorset, where she goes into labour and has a son, naming him John (after Jack Firebrace's late son). By day she cares for Petra’s daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone. Based on the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, this book tells the story of a nanny that disappeared.

During a tour of the arena – implied to be a former football stadium – undetected rebel bombs explode and kill several tributes and mentors.When it comes to writing the murkiest backwaters of the human psyche, Collins is fathoms out of her depth. When the police refuse to pursue the case, Petra takes on the investigation herself, a path that leads her to Nisha’s friends—other workers in the neighborhood—and to the darker side of a migrant’s life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. In the ensuing chase, Coriolanus is forced to bludgeon one of the tributes to death in self-defense. In addition, one letter pattern for each of the common long vowels sounds is taught: ee (as in three), ie (as in tie), oa (as in toad), ai (as in train) oo (as in too and also as in good).

These books revise all the phonics learnt in stages 1-3: the short vowel sounds a, e, i, o and u; consonants and double consonants; two consonants making one sound th, sh, ch, wh, ng, ck; and consonant clusters making more than one sound at beginning and ends of words (e. Also important is that when multiple workers went missing, the police did not wish to investigate, seeing the women as less than. While determined to keep up appearances, Crassus's son and heir, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow, his cousin Tigris, and their paternal grandmother (nicknamed "Grandma’am") are running out of options and resources.while the plot of this story is about a missing woman, the heart of the story is how her disappearance affects those left behind. Chapters are told from the point of view of Petra and Yiannis with occasional chapters by an unnamed person. Similarly, because of the parallel narratives WWI and 1970s Britain, the novel explores metahistorical questions about how to document and recover narratives about the past. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen's experience of the war.