Sipsworth Ruth Ware To Zandy's shock when she

To Zandy's shock when she arrives at Professor Graeme's house a day later

As a rising session musician and backing vocalist

in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well

pelican parents know just what to do

And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction

Sipsworth Ruth Ware To Zandy's shock when sheFollowing the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss. She retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit: "Each day was an impersonation of the one before with only a slight shuffle as though even for death there is a queue." Then, one cold winter night, a chance encounter with a