At her third attempt, Jerusha Burnett wants to become the perfect wife. Instead, she finds herself trying to become the perfect widow. Whilst engaged in this, she plays an elaborate trick on her two gay house guests - James and Oswald - and ends up disturbing the dust on a death. The scene is set in the Scottish Borders (in an imaginary village near Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott). It revolves around Kirkfield House, which Jerusha inherited from her late husband, Hamish Burnett. The action revolves around the magnetic Jerusha (born Mary Louise Patterson), not much over forty-years-old, blonde, vivacious, curvaceous and generous. It is April Fools' Day 2010 and Jerusha buries a dressmaker's dummy in the veggie garden, knowing that James and Ossie are drunkenly watching from an upstairs' window. As events would have it, the police are present when, later, the trick is exposed, the dummy exhumed. But... in the course of unearthing a 'body' - with permanent rigor mortis - the police find the skeleton of Hamish's first wife, Francoise Burnett. What is the fourteen-year-old secret of her death? If she didn't just go missing all those years ago, was it murder, and who was responsible? We will find out...
I shook my head . . . not wanting . . . not able to open my mouth because if I did, I was afraid I would scream." These were Ruth's words when she was invited to party on reaching the Rhodesian-South African Border in an armed convoy in wartime, prior to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. Before Ruth left her homeland, an African witch doctor--a woman dressed all in white--threw the bones for her. the witch doctor's wild eyes said it all. She recoiled and refused to interpret what she saw in the scattering of bones, seeds, and pods in front of her. Ruth was left anticipating an unspeakable future. Living in the Scottish Borders years later, married to the devious and hardhearted Max, who subjects her to psychological abuse, Ruth faces both the disintegration of her marriage and the death of her husband. She will have to leave the marital home in its idyllic setting . . . "leave all that is familiar and all that belongs in places, in corners of a room." She had done this before--lost an environment and a history.
At her third attempt, Jerusha Burnett wants to become the perfect wife. Instead, she finds herself trying to become the perfect widow. Whilst engaged in this, she plays an elaborate trick on her two gay house guests - James and Oswald - and ends up disturbing the dust on a death. The scene is set in the Scottish Borders (in an imaginary village near Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott). It revolves around Kirkfield House, which Jerusha inherited from her late husband, Hamish Burnett. The action revolves around the magnetic Jerusha (born Mary Louise Patterson), not much over forty-years-old, blonde, vivacious, curvaceous and generous. It is April Fools Day 2010 and Jerusha buries a dressmakers dummy in the veggie garden, knowing that James and Ossie are drunkenly watching from an upstairs window. As events would have it, the police are present when, later, the trick is exposed, the dummy exhumed. But in the course of unearthing a body - with permanent rigor mortis - the police find the skeleton of Hamishs first wife, Franoise Burnett. What is the fourteen-year-old secret of her death? If she didnt just go missing all those years ago, was it murder, and who was responsible? We will find out
I shook my head . . . not wanting . . . not able to open my mouth because if I did, I was afraid I would scream. These were Ruths words when she was invited to party on reaching the Rhodesian-South African Border in an armed convoy in wartime, prior to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. Before Ruth left her homeland, an African witch doctora woman dressed all in whitethrew the bones for her. The witch doctors wild eyes said it all. She recoiled and refused to interpret what she saw in the scattering of bones, seeds, and pods in front of her. Ruth was left anticipating an unspeakable future. Living in the Scottish Borders years later, married to the devious and hardhearted Max, who subjects her to psychological abuse, Ruth faces both the disintegration of her marriage and the death of her husband. She will have to leave the marital home in its idyllic setting . . . leave all that is familiar and all that belongs in places, in corners of a room. She had done this beforelost an environment and a history.
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