Szerző Mary Lawson

'She's one of my all-time favourite writers... utterly captivating' GRAHAM NORTON'A beauty of a book... I kept turning the pages, desperate to know how it would end' RACHEL JOYCE'A masterpiece of insight into what it means to be fully flawed and perfectly…

Ontario, 1972. Sedmiletá Clara vysedává každý den u okna v obývacím pokoji a doufá, že každou chvíli zahlédne svou starší sestru. Rose, teenagerka plná vzdoru, utekla z domu bez jediného slova a už celé týdny o ní nikdo neslyšel. Útěchu Clara nachází…

Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered. Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, moves into the house next door…