Description
An affluent young mother, Benet, tries to hold her life together after a devastating rupture—raising her two-year-old son while remaining estranged from the child’s father. As her world narrows, other women’s lives come into focus, revealing how longing, resentment, and private bargains can quietly reshape what people tell themselves is “reasonable.” With Ruth Rendell’s razor-sharp psychological insight, the novel probes the moral gray zones behind everyday choices and the unsettling ease with which sympathy can turn into complicity. Blending domestic realism with suspenseful tension, it examines motherhood, authorship, and the stories we use to justify our desires—until the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
Available Editions
paperback
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781453210895
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell.