Rebecca Grey can't shake off the hallucination she had while in hospital, but her alcoholic mother Bex is too wrapped up in the 'Great Grief' of her youth to notice her daughter's struggles to define dream from reality. After lurching from one poverty-stricken situation to another, and ghosts from the past are disturbed, Rebecca's dream comes alive. Why does the old woman who left them a sudden inheritance believe she is Rebecca's grandmother, and why did Bex swear to stop living when she was only nineteen? The setting of the novel transitions between the flat seascape of Skegness, the fields of Lincolnshire, the mountains of Ireland and the rolling hills of Leicestershire. Another Rebecca is a family story of secrets, interdependency and obsessive love.