Nothing is quite what it seems
On Christmas Eve, a conductor arrives as a first-time guest at an elegant London townhouse — and encounters a grotesque portrait whose eyes seem to know him. Over one winter and spring, the portrait's secret unravels: the story of an “invisible woman” he met at a masked ball five years earlier, of a marriage undone not by betrayal but by a single professional mistake mistaken for cruelty — and of a household of surgeons, barristers, psychiatrists and dreaming RADA graduates among whom her secret has been hiding — in plain sight — all along.
Warm, witty and music-laced — the ensemble mischief of a classic country-house mystery, a portrait that transforms like a reverse Dorian Gray, and an original West End musical built inside the story itself.