Author(s): ELSE, Barbara

NZ Fiction

Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three children to manage, a distraught friend - as well as possums in the laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband Russell - but there's an importunate older man who's after her, a slightly sycophanic younger one, an angel and a Viking on the scene... What the hell is Russell up to? And what is the story in Sophie's gradually uncovered past that explains her dependence on those mysterious and vulnerable creatures - men?