SpiderwebAll her life Stella Brentwood has considered herself a bird of passage. She has known love, but she remains alone by choice and chance. Now retired, she has decided to root herself in the Somerset landscape. The hamlet that is now her home proves itself deceptive - an apparently tranquil backwater where tensions within a dysfunctional family build to a destructive climax. |
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