Daniel Kemp Boeken

Alicia Collinson poses a surprising question to her dinner guests: "Do you think lying is endemic in society today?" They all have different answers based on their experiences, but what was the purpose of Alicia's question? She was separated from her twin brother, Tom, when they were eight. Tom graduated into a life of violence, while Alice found a life of fortune and wealth in her partner, Mary. But when Mary unexpectedly passes away, a new person enters Alice's life - someone who seems to know every detail about her. Soon, her past and present lives collide with life-changing consequences.

Why? Is a story set in a web of despair, sex, unreachable emotion and love.One man's crippling injuries, caused by an unprovoked, vicious attack, ruins the lives of everyone around him. This includes Terry Meadows, a nineteen-year-old boy who falls in love with the main character's daughter Laura, twenty-seven years before the opening of the story.The twisted, interconnecting matrix in which Francis, Laura's father, lives, destroys and distorts his daughter's image of life beyond repair. It is a sad tragedy with an unexpected ending.