Naomi's Room

Charles's wife, a former Fitzwilliam Museum employee who gave up her career when their daughter Naomi was born.

Charles and Laura's four-year-old daughter, who disappears from Hamleys toy shop on a Christmas Eve trip to London and is later found murdered; her presence continues to haunt the family afterward.

Cambridge academic who narrates the haunting of his family, looking back from the present on his young daughter's murder and its aftermath.