Elizabeth Harrower Knihy

Zoe Howardová má sedemnásť rokov, keď ju jej brat Russell zoznámi so Stephenom Quaylom. Stephen je jedinečný, Zoe nikdy v živote nikoho podobného nestretla. Je zvláštny a prchký ako postava z ruského románu. Jeho sestra Anna je plachá a uvážlivá sirota. Zoe a Russell, Stephen a Anna pochádzajú z rôznych spoločenských kruhov, ktorých tieňa sa za celý život nezbavia. Ich príbeh sa odohráva v nádherných záhradách a vilách severne od prístavu v Sydney a je psychologickou drámou o rodine a láske, tyranii a slobode.

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited. After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control. Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.