"This pale, starkly understated tale runs over you like one long shiver."
Hegarty (aka Frances Fyfield) follows The Playroom (1991), her first novel under her own name, with another psychological study of depersonalizing imprisonment—although this time the prisoner is an adult.
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"Many readers, though, won't be able to finish it at all."
Hegarty, better known under her pseudonym of Frances Fyfield (A Question of Guilt, 1989, etc.), shows in clinical detail how an apparently model husband and father could kill his young daughter by slow abuse, all without interference from his wife or anyone else.
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