Australian librarian Gerard Freeman exchanges letters with a mysterious Englishwoman, Alice Jessel, who is confined to a wheelchair… Gerard’s mother keeps some disturbing secret… And behind this secret are the grandmother’s secrets… and the mysteries of the great-grandmother. What horror must pursue the family for an entire century?
Ancient tales, yellowed diaries and letters, modern electronic mail… Different texts written by different people, but there is an author who connects them, and there is an author’s ghost for whom there are no barriers of time and no statutes of limitation.