Alice has a plan to escape her husband and start a new life. She chooses Marcy as her accomplice. But Marcy has plans of her own and Alice finds herself the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Out of her depth Alice steers her small boat down the river towards the sea in a desperate bid for freedom. Set on and around the river at the edge of London Cross Deep takes the reader on a journey from manicured suburban lawns to the treacherous sandbanks of the Thames estuary.