内容紹介
Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it's safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but most of all she has high hopes for her new venture with Brett, a local newspaper, the Brunswick Corner Bugle. Life seems full of promise, and indeed, to read her diary, filled with her most intimate feelings and revelations, you would never think otherwise. Strange, then, that reality is so dangerously different ...
内容(「BOOK」データベースより)
ニューヨークの喧噪を離れ、ペンシルバニアの片田舎で、執筆活動のかたわら夫や息子と穏やかに暮らすことを夢見たイーディス。だが、夫の伯父ジョージの突然の闖入によってその夢は脆くも崩れ去ってゆく。そんなときイーディスに残されたものは、一冊の厚い日記帳だけであった。やがて彼女は日記に描かれたもう一つの別の世界、彼女自身の幻想を生きはじめる…。