Umnia El-Neil

London, 1980. Flat J has become a safehouse. The people inside have a mission. There is a deadly outbreak, and someone has to fight it.

London, 1962. Carol has a plan for her life: a husband, children, and a best friend called Margaret. Margaret has something to tell her.

London, 1991. Yuliana moves into Flat J. She does not believe in ghosts. She does not believe in a lot of things people tell her she should feel. She hosts the memorial anyway.

London, 1953. Flat J has it's first tenants: Walter and Ruth. An untimely exit that no one can explain, a blue stain that won't come out, and eight years of vacancy. Something happened that day. The building never quite recovered.

London, 1994. Maria has inherited Flat J and is quietly beginning to leave the church. Her friend Stephanie has always been beside her. Some things do not need to be announced. They just become true.

A meeting between a Taiwanese mother and a British gay: he knows her son better than she would have liked it whereas she knows his husband better than he would have liked it.