Here, set in the beautiful Suffolk countryside, is a story of love and violet death. Ann Fielding was fourteen the April day in1927 when she stood in the witness box and swore to tell the truth. Her cousin, beautiful Miranda Montague, was charged with the willful murder of her husband. A familiar tale, everyone said, a rich, old man married to a young wife—a girl who had taken a lover. The verdict of her guilt or innocence would depend on a child's testimony. Ann answered the questions that brought back memories of her summer holiday at Mill House. Enchanted golden days until the stranger from Australia came. Then there was the moonlit night Ann stood on the river bank and saw him with Miranda, followed the next morning by the bewildering events that led to the fatal drowning. In time Ann was to return to Mill House, to the ceaseless rushing waters of the weir. Here she experienced passion and despair and chilling terror before she learned a shattering truth. Alive with vivid characterizations, this unusual novel will be difficult to forget, difficult to put down until the last page is turned.
