This novel is concerned with the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life, focusing on Louise and Rennie whose dreamhouse, a decaying Tuscan villa is, in reality, the stuff of nightmares. However, as the long, hot summer and the story progresses, Louise's life begins to ripen with new and unconventional possibilities. Kate Grenville is the author of a collection of short stories and the novel "Lillian's story".
- ISBN10 0670810401
- ISBN13 9780670810406
- Publish Date 31 March 1988
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 6 December 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English