Review
'A must for lovers of Rankin' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Full of secrets and revelations, with an atmospheric sense of time and place, it has Rankin's signature darkness' CHOICE 'It wouldn't take a Rebus to sleuth out the telltale signs of a talent in the making' -- Chris Power THE TIMES
--This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, a drama glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.
--This text refers to the
Audio Cassette
edition.
