Издания и произведения

Liza and her mother have led a strange, enclosed life together in their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion. But now all this must end. Eve has told Liza she must leave. Because Eve has killed a man. And he is not the first. At seventeen years of age, with 100 in cash, Liza is cast adrift into a terrifying world she has never known. But she is not alone. For there is one secret that she has kept from her mother - her love affair with Sean, the young man from the big house. With him, Liza gradually learns about the world, about herself, and must come to terms with the possibility that the murderous violence of her mother may…

"Птичка тари" - это напряженный, замечательно написанный психологический триллер, юная героиня которого рассказывает о своем детстве, проведенном в уединенной сторожке старинного имения Шроув вдвоем с нелюдимой матерью. В свои семнадцать лет Лиза ни разу не ездила ни в автобусе, ни в поезде, никогда не играла с ровесниками. Она почти не знает мира, который ее мать Ив называет погибельным. Однако Лизе приходится покинуть сторожку, потому что Ив убила человека. И он не первая ее жертва.

A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that she has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.