Michele Hutchison Knihy

Sabine is twenty-four years old and has just returned to work following a nervous breakdown. Unsurprisingly, life in the office has changed since she left, and Sabine is now the brunt of her colleagues' cruel jokes, as well as the main topic of office gossip. It soon becomes clear, however, that Sabine's problems are far deeper than those she faces daily at work. Unable to forget her friend Isabel, who went missing when the pair were still at school, an approaching class reunion forces Sabine to think about what really happened all those years ago, and why. The terrifying flashbacks that she begins to experience make her all the more determined to solve the mystery of her friend's fate.

Románový debut Marieke Lucas Rijneveld je príbehom sedliackej rodiny, ktorú zasiahne smrť dieťaťa. Z pohľadu dospievajúcej Jas sledujeme, ako sa s touto stratou vyrovnávajú jednotliví členovia rodiny. V zármutku sa utápajúci rodičia nevnímajú, ako sa im z rúk postupne vymykajú životy dcér Hanny a Jas i syna Obbeho. Jas, ktorá sa cíti nepochopená, sa so svojimi súrodencami utieka k erotickým rituálom a túžby upiera k „druhej strane", aby aspoň vo svojich predstavách unikla tomu, čo na ňu dolieha - bezútešnému vidieckemu prostrediu, chladným rodinným vzťahom a prísnosti kalvínskej komunity.