Ninepins

Author: Thornton, Rosy

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 19 April 2012 by Sandstone Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
204 x 135 x 15 | 304g

Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins. Shes in the habit of renting out the pumphouse, once a fen drainage station, to students, but this year shes been persuaded to take in 17-year-old Willow, a care-leaver with a dubious past, on the recommendation of her social worker, Vince. Is Willow dangerous or just vulnerable? Its possible she was once guilty of arson; her mothers hippy life is gradually revealed as something more sinister; and Beth is in trouble at school and out of it. Lauras carefully ordered world seems to be getting out of control. With the tension of a thriller, NINEPINS explores the idea of family, and the volatile and changing relationships between mothers and daughters, in a landscape that is beautiful but - as they all discover - perilous.