The Crocodile Bird

When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their\nremote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified.\nAlthough seventeen years of age, she has never been on a bus or a\ntrain, has never played with a child of her own age. She has almost\nno knowledge of a world described by her mother as evil and\ndestructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because\nEve has killed a man. And he is not the first. With -100 in cash,\nLiza is cast aside. However, she is not alone. There is one\nparticular secret she has kept from her mother - her love affair\nwith a young man who worked in the big house. With him, gradually\nLiza learns about the world, about herself, and must come to terms\nwith the possibility that the murderous violence of her mother may\nbe present in her.

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