In a once great, now falling, mansion live an aristocratic family Alice, huge, sad and longing for love her paralysed mother who is subject to wild and eccentric enthusiasms and the foster child Agnes, whose desire to be an actress sets in motion a train of bizarre and horrifying events.Then love comes to Alice in the form of beautiful but furtive Vincent who has moved in next door. But does he want Alice for herself or for the treasures that she digs from the rubble of her tumbled home? And how does he view Alice&#146s obsession with compost, the making of which she compares to the growth of spirituality and the purging away of sin?Black comedy lurks beneath the surface of this gloriously imaginative new novel from the author of Cobweb Walking, The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel and The TeaPlanter&#146s Daughter.

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 360 g; Dimensions: 234 x 153

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