Book description
Thirty-year-old Theresa Pellikaan is typical of the wealthy middle
classes with her respectable background, successful husband and house in
an apparently sleepy, yet powerful, rich village. She works in a
gallery, also typical of her type. When her former schoolmate Ruth
Ackermann, brought up in the same village, makes waves with an
international bestseller, but none of the villagers ever mention her
achievement, not even the literary circle of Theresa s father, famous
civil rights scholar Randolf Pellikaan, Theresa begins to wonder why. It
can t only be because it s not literature . It emerges that there is a
dark secret in the village. Every member of the book club has a reason
to keep quiet and Ruth Ackerman s novel threatens to bring the past into
the present, with devastating results. Unable to cope with the silence,
Theresa investigates, no matter the consequences. Thirty-year-old
Theresa Pellikaan is typical of the wealthy middle classes with her
respectable background, successful husband and house in an apparently
sleepy, yet powerful, rich village. She works in a gallery, also typical
of her type. When her former schoolmate Ruth Ackermann, brought up in
the same village, makes waves with an international bestseller, but none
of the villagers ever mention her achievement, not even the literary
circle of Theresa s father, famous civil rights scholar Randolf
Pellikaan, Theresa begins to wonder why. It can t only be because it s
not literature . It emerges that there is a dark secret in the village.
Every member of the book club has a reason to keep quiet and Ruth
Ackerman s novel threatens to bring the past into the present, with
devastating results. Unable to cope with the silence, Theresa
investigates, no matter the consequences.
