With the dark suspense of Donna Tartt\'s The Secret History and the frank and shocking eroticism of Josephine Hart, this debut novel tells the story of a young teacher\'s illicit affair and obsession with a historical murder.
Her lover\'s wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point , a true-Crime story about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress in a nearby.
Tasmanian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted fourth grader, Lucien.
With the dark suspense of Donna Tartt\'s The Secret History and the frank and shocking eroticism of Josephine Hart, this debut novel tells the story of a young teacher\'s illicit affair and obsession with a historical murder