(Paperback, Main)

Mrs Sartoris is a provincial German woman, a bourgeois wife and mother. Yet she harbours secrets and enmities which have been simmering since her teenage rejection by a well-born lover. She is calculating, narcissistic, passionate and deadly, but remains within a grey, conventional existence.

(Paperback, Main)

Part confessional, part thriller, Elke Schmitter's explosive first novel is the story of Margaret. Planning to run away with him, she seems unaware that her plan is a fantasy that can never come true, and similarly unaware of the shocking repercussions that could result from chasing such a dream.