
Emerence is a domestic servant
- strong fierce eccentric & with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper When Magda a young Hungarian writer takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly carefully built But Emerence has secrets & vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda's friendship & change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly Szabo manages to conjure up as many cliffhangers as an Indiana Jones film The Door is a triumph Clever moving frightening it deserves to be a bestseller' Tibor Fischer Daily Telegraph