When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building & after some deliberation even
Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife They are a disparate group of people each with their individual Rendellian psychoses & potential for violence There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend Claudia as that might involve asking her husband The party will be one everyone remembers But not for the right reasons Living opposite in reclusive isolation is a beautiful young Asian woman christened Tigerlily by Stuart As though from some strange urban fairytale she emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart & his guests Mr & Mrs Font the worried parents will soon have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son Darkly humorous & piercingly observant of human behaviour Ruth Rendell has created another compelling fable of our lives & crimes