Author Description

When her husband dies in a road accident, Rosemary and her two children travel to New England where her sister Celia is living, and exchange houses with an American family. What starts out as a crash course in American culture rapidly becomes a crash course in fear. Why is Celia so different and what is this mysterious "executive burnout" which ails her husband? As the dry summer wears on the risk of forest fire becomes a reality - and not an accidental one.