During one long shining summer of school trips, games in the playground, amber limbs in the long grass and sudden rain, the village school secretary puzzles over why her assistant, Laura, is increasingly wan and withdrawn. Bit by bit she pieces together the real, disturbing story of the two sisters' past before she turns, inevitably and painfully, to her own.

"Atmosphere was what was crucial for me, here... a building of suspense in the most ordinary of environments."

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Serpent's Tail; First Edition edition (1 Jun 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185242172X
ISBN-13: 978-1852421724

'Metroland’s answer to dirty realism' — Independent on Sunday

'An extraordinarily complex and economic piece of writing' — New Statesman and Society