Melanie Finnová, scenáristka a novinářka, zakládá a vede projekt Natron Health Project, který přináší zdravotní péči komunitám Maasajů v severní Tanzanii. Její dílo se často zabývá temnými tématy a nabízí pronikavý pohled na lidskou psychiku. Finnová mistrně kombinuje napětí s hlubokým psychologickým vhledem, čímž vytváří nezapomenutelné literární zážitky.
After her father's death, Ellie returns to Kenya after twenty-five years to settle his affairs. She becomes involved in uncovering the secrets surrounding her father's life and her parents' marriage in 1960s Kenya.
"Published in a slightly different form as Shame, in 2015 in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, an Hachette UK Company"--Title page verso.
"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. Soon, Rosie is living with him on a swanky estate on Connecticut's Gold Coast, naively in sway to his moral ambivalence. A daughter -- Miranda -- is born, just as his current con goes awry forcing them to abscond in the middle of the night to the untamed wilderness of northern Vermont. Almost immediately, Bennett abandons them in an uninsulated cabin without a car or cash for weeks at a time, so he can tend a teaching job that may or may not exist at an elite college. Rosie is forced to care for her young daughter alone, and to tackle the stubborn intricacies of the wood stove, snowshoe into town, hunt for wild game, and forage in the forest. As Rosie and Miranda's life gradually begins to normalize, Bennett's schemes turn malevolent, and Rosie must at last confront his twisted deceptions. Her actions have far-reaching and perilous consequences."--Provided by publisher
Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Haunted by her traumatic past, she becomes obsessed when she finds disturbing writing scrawled across one of the walls...