In the late winter of 1979, Leeds housewife Ellen Heenan dies in childbirth abandoning a guiltstricken husband to insanitys grasp and leaving four young children to find for themselves. Thirteenyearold Matthew and Annie, age twelve, know what the authorities will do if the learn of Fathers debilitating madness. A closeknit family will be speedily unravelled, its threads scattered carelessly to the winds. So deception is the only recourse a faade of normalcy that must be carefully constructed to fool prying neighbourhood eyes. And resourceful young Matthew and his sister have the situation well in hand until a freshly slain corpse turns up beneath the kitchen window . . . Gripping and satisfying Chicago Tribune Subtle and surprising . . . Robert Barnard at his best San Diego UnionTribune A sad, sweet horror of a story . . . the suspense is delicious. New York Times Book Review

Binding: Paperback;194 pages; Publisher: Pan Macmillan; Classification: FF; Weight: 444 g; Dimensions: 132 x 235 x 17

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