Lauren Pailing is born in the sixties, and a child of the seventies. She is thirteen years old the first time she dies.Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the eighties, becomes a Londoner in the nineties. And each time she dies, new lives begin for the people who loved her - while Lauren enters a brand new life, too.But in each of Laurens lives, a man called Peter Stanning disappears. And, in each of her lives, Lauren sets out to find him.