The Tree Of Hands Author:Ruth Rendell Benet had long been plagued by the alarming (and occasionally dangerous) eccentricities of her mother. Once when she was about fourteen,they had been alone in a train compartment , when her mother had tried to stabeher with a carving knife. It had been many years now since Benet had seen her mother and Benet now a mother herself was a mother an... more »d a successful writer. She is happy with her life and content,
But all that is about to change with a phone call from her father telling her that he is sending her mother to her for a visit alone.« less