Indie Brown and her sensitive and steadfast partner, Peter, have escaped Indie's terrible past, moving far away from her parents to a happy life in the backwoods of Maine. But one autumn evening, a late-night phone call from her younger sister sends Indie reeling back into the chaos of her troubled family and she reluctantly returns to her home in the mountains of Arizona. From her mother's disturbing relationship with her sister, to the death of her brother, Indie is forced to re-evaluate the relationships she has with all the members of her family, and with Peter too.
Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, the rare and horrific mental disorder that causes afflicted mothers to make their own children ill, is hauntingly brought to life in lyrical prose in this tragic and beautiful novel.
- ISBN10 0758238746
- ISBN13 9780758238740
- Publish Date 1 October 2011 (first published 10 August 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kensington Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English