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This is a novel about a young girl, who, growing up an outsider, becomes drawn into the life of a local family with some curious beliefs. They treat her as a daughter (for sinister reasons, we later find out) and take her away with them to a religious holiday camp. It is here that she is introduced to the Finnish Envallist branch of Protestantism and here that events start to take a terrible turn. Rejected by some of the sectarians for her non-commitment to their beliefs, Natalie creates a rift in the group which culminates in a climactic scene where she is gravely injured. Later, as an adult in Finland, she tries to make sense of what happened and to unlock the secret origins of Envallism itself.