Jane Healey

In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings?and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth?s house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks. Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns to the suffocating, once grand house she grew up in, the mother...