The Ravages of Time

When a baby left by her nanny outside the local village co-op store is snatched from its pram, the only potential witness is Mary Mundy, an ex-mental patient discharged from the old asylum.

Mary has spent her entire life institutionalised after being admitted for a pregnancy when she was a young girl and is now living in the community in warden-aided accommodation.

Is it a chance abduction?

The baby is Phoebe Devonshire, the long-awaited only child of Bernard Devonshire, a wealthy building dev...