When Louise returns to the house where she was brought up, old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. What, for instance, is the significance of the rare Chinese lily carefully raised by her grandmother in the odd greenhouse, perched high up on the side of the garden? Why is the gate at the bottom of the garden kept barred and locked against the common lapping up against its walls? Only by unravelling these secrets which the Braithwaites, in their fierce family pride, have deliberately hidden, or deliberately forgotten, can she arrive at the truth about them and about herself.
- ISBN10 0755111370
- ISBN13 9780755111374
- Publish Date December 2002 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 28 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint House of Stratus
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English