A Novel Too Far

She doesn't care for the success of her older brother - now a best-selling novelist and confirmed bachelor. She has come to terms with the tragedy of losing both parents in her teens and she thought she could be content living alone in the village where she grew up.

But Rose is finding it increasingly more difficult to control her life. Her upbringing had been far from 'rosey'.

Increasingly, everyday occurrences and conversations result in episodes of a smothering fog that render her almost u...