Helen is the daughter of Richard Lingate, second son of a wealthy american"Old Money" family., and currently the only heir. Although she has an enviable lifestyle she feels completely bound in by the family and wants to break free. Thirty years ago her mother died, found at the bottom of the cliffs near their summer holiday villa on Capri. and now the whole family is back there as they are every summer. Helen conceives a plan to br's PA.free which she shares with her friend Lorna, her uncle's PA. They are close to success when Lorna disappears with the money and is found dead at sea a couple of days later. The police start to investigate, not only Lorna's death, but re-open the inquiry into Helen's mother's death too.. The investigation re-opens old wounds and family tensions. The truth will out and nothing we believed about the family at the out set is true. Enjyable follow-up to her first book, The Cloisters.

I have never read anything like it a running monologue interspersed with flashbacks of memory or inspiration an unedited proof a meandering of thought a interrupted conversation hard to follow but interesting in the way that you look out for inspiration in creative thought processes a circular motion of original thought and repeat but the story developing making you think this repeating must be inevitable in how the story develops. I have not finished but I'm intrigued