Putney

Synopsis

It Is The 1970s And Ralph, An Up-and-coming Composer, Is Visiting Edmund Greenslay At His Riverside Home In Putney To Discuss A Collaboration. Through The House's Colourful Rooms And Unruly Garden Flits Nine-year-old Daphne - Dark, Teasing, Slippery As Mercury, More Sprite Than Boy Or Girl. From The Moment Their Worlds Collide, Ralph Is Consumed By An Obsession To Make Daphne His. But Ralph Is Twenty-five And Daphne Is Only A Child, And Even In The Bohemian Abandon Of 1970s London Their Fast-burgeoning Relationship Must Be Kept A Secret. It Is Not Until Years Later That Daphne Is Forced To Confront The Truth Of Her Own Childhood - And An Act Of Violence That Has Lain Hidden For Decades. Putney Is A Bold, Thought-provoking Novel About The Moral Lines We Tread, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And The Memories That Play Themselves Out Again And Again, Like Snatches Of Song.--publisher's Description.