It is the story of a young governess who arrives in a wealthy English household with an angelic face and impeccable manners, but who hides a far more troubled past than she lets on. She seems gentle, fragile, and devoted, yet she quietly studies each member of the family as if they were roles in a play that she alone is directing.
Little by little, through subtle emotional games, confidences, and carefully calibrated seduction, she reshapes affections and alliances, blurring the line between honesty and deceit and turning this respectable home into a stage of manipulation, where no one can be sure who is truly a victim and who is truly guilty.
This book was selected by Flamingo.