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W. W. Norton
April 2007
On Sale: April 9, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0393061485
EAN: 9780393061482
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A suspenseful debut novel about identity, reminiscent of the
mythical lyricism of Margaret Atwood and the taut eroticism
of Josephine Hart. Janet grew up with her father; her mother, she was always
told, died when she was three. But now she discovers she has
inherited a house from her mother—who, she learns, died only
recently. In a state of shock she travels north with the
key, and finds an old stone cottage at the sea's edge. Tom was raised by his mother, traveling from one place to
another, his only stability the stories she told him—stories
of shape-shifters, danger, impossible love. Now he hides
away in an old stone cottage at the sea's edge, waiting for
the woman he knows will come. When Janet arrives, she is
surprised to find Tom and to find herself mysteriously drawn
to him. In Erica Wagner's world of truth and terror, lives and
stories become so interwoven that, in the end, all
distinctions are lost. Her hypnotic prose is charged with an
intensity that will leave the reader breathless.
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