Book description
There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young
American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry
James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis.
There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies
for a temporary job as a nanny in a large country house. She seems to
display astonishing naivety as she build a fantasy about her emotional
future there. Surely she can see it is all delusion?
But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably
towards a terrible and shocking climax.
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College,
Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a
prominent position in the world of literature and journalism, winning
prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
