Episode 1

Nine strangers with a variety of differing emotional and physical needs find themselves thrown together at a very remote and unconventional health resort - Tranquillum House.

Romantic novelist Frances Welty, for example, is there to mend a broken heart, a bad back and a wounded ego.

The other eight guests, though seemingly fine on the outside, are all harbouring ghosts or pain of some kind and they arrive for a little restorative break.

Tranquillum House, however, is no ordinary health resort. It's owned and run by an equally wounded and strange lady who is determined that these nine perfect strangers' lives will never be the same again after the ten days that lie ahead.

Written by bestselling author Liane Moriarty.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Robin Brooks.

Read by Kerry Fox.

Producer: Celia de Wolff

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.