Zusammenfassung
In 1914, when Nicandra is eight, all is well in the big Irish house called Deer Forest. Maman is beautiful and adored. Dada, silent and small, mooches contentedly around the stables. Aunt Tossie is widowed but looks splendid in weeds. Then the perfect surface is shattered; Maman does something too dreadful ever to be spoken of.