Ninepins

• Date de parution : 19/04/2012
• Editeur : Sandstone Press Ltd Digital
• EAN : 9781905207862
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• Support : Livre numérique

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• Thème : Non attribué
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Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins. She';s in the habit of renting out the pumphouse, once a fen drainage station, to students, but this year she';s been persuaded to take in 17-year-old Willow, a... Voir plus

Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins. She';s in the habit of renting out the pumphouse, once a fen drainage station, to students, but this year she';s been persuaded to take in 17-year-old Willow, a care-leaver with a dubious past, on the recommendation of her social worker, Vince. Is Willow dangerous or just vulnerable? It';s possible she was once guilty of arson; her mother';s hippy life is gradually revealed as something more sinister; and Beth is in trouble at school and out of it. Laura';s carefully ordered world seems to be getting out of control. With the tension of a thriller, NINEPINS explores the idea of family, and the volatile and changing relationships between mothers and daughters, in a landscape that is beautiful but - as they all discover - perilous.