Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin - now twenty-two - is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother's surprise, he asks for Mary. When Mary responds to Vanessa's cry for help and returns from Uganda to look after Justin, the balance of power in the house shifts dramatically. Both women's lives change irrevocably as tensions build towards a climax on a snowbound motorway.
- ISBN13 9781846591327
- Publish Date 15 June 2012 (first published 10 August 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Saqi Books
- Imprint Telegram Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English