Have you ever moved into a house and found intriguing traces of the previous occupants? Was there an urgent phone call for them, the moment you moved in? Did their friends drop in, wondering where they had got to? Did you receive letters for them, with intriguing postmarks? And did you dare to steam the letters open, because you desperately needed to know what they were about?
When Nimue moves to the most average suburb in Sydney to hide from her ex-husband and rebuild her life, she's caught up in the strange affairs of the previous occupants. They'd left in a hurry, without a forwarding address. She needs a new identity - so why not borrow theirs?
Over the next few months, she becomes more and more entangled in their web - until, finally, it all becomes too much, and she finds herself fleeing once more, in a way she never imagined.
This book will be welcomed by those interested in Pre-Raphaelite art, Arthurian legends, practical time-travel, sexual mores in Hurstville, postal history, the works of Christina Stead, Sydney in the 1920s, state-of-the-art telemarketing, antique yachts - and everybody who is paranoid about government databases.
The first few chapters are now on-line.
