Hardcover

Fiction

101

When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella’s case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, turns out to be the ability to see a person’s probable future... Stella forsees a gruesome murder and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but too late. The murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Her mother Jenny, on the other hand, can read other people’s dreams, but sometimes misinterprets them, to her own cost.
Stella has to hide out with her grandmother Elinor (who can always tell a liar but is more interested in hybrid roses than humanity). A widow, she lives alone in curious Cake House, close by the overgrown woods and the hour-glass lake where 300 years ago Rebecca Sparrow, a washgirl with a deadly gift, was drowned. In Unity, Mass., families go back years, and the same prejudices and mistakes are recycled over generations. Stella herself brings light and irreverent curiosity to this closed world (and falls in love), but the dark thread of the past meets the sinister trail of contemporary murder i the frightening climax to her gripping tale.

Doubleday

9780965756211

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