Ninepins (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Rosy Thorton | knygos.lt

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Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins. SheOCOs in the habit of renting out the pumphouse, once a fen drainage station, to students, but this year sheOCOs been persuaded to take in 17-year-old Willow, a care-leaver with a dubious past, on the recommendation of her social worker, Vince. Is Willow dangerous or just vulnerable?a ItOCOs possible she was once guilty of arson; her motherOCOs hippy life is gradually revealed as something more sinister; and Beth is in trouble at school and out of it.a LauraOCOs carefully ordered world seems to be getting out of control. With the tension of a thriller, NINEPINS explores the idea of family, and the volatile and changing relationships between mothers and daughters, in a landscape that is beautiful but ? as they all discover - perilous."