Read by Juliet Stevenson. 1993
When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of an
English country mansion, Liza is terrified. Although seventeen years of age, she has never been
on a bus or a train, has never played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge
of a world described by her mother as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together
is over because Eve has killed a man. And he is not the first. With ?100 in cash, Liza is cast
aside. However, she is not alone. There is one particular secret she has kept from her mother -
her love affair with a young man who worked in the big house. With him, gradually Liza learns
about the world, about herself, and must come to terms with the possibility that the murderous
violence of her mother may be present in her....

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