The House of Women Bernardine Evaristo let him get on with

let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs

even if that's only former street kid Geordie

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel

Although Alas cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within

As the widow scrambles to stay ahead of them

The House of Women Bernardine Evaristo let him get on withLonely, ageing and chronically ill, Ned Jones is found dead on sweltering summer afternoon in his rooms. Everyone assumes he died of natural causes. But after the post mortem suggests otherwise, Detective Chief Inspector Michael McKenna and his team become involved. In search of Ned's killer, McKenna visits the house of Edith Harris, where Ned lodged. But fragile, neurotic Edith and her three enigmatic daughters Annie, Mina and Phoebe spring one