The Farm
Until the moment he received a frantic call from his father, Daniel
believed his parents were headed into a peaceful, well-deserved
retirement. They had sold their home and business in London, and said
"farewell to England" with a cheerful party where all their friends had
gathered to wish them well on their great adventure: setting off to
begin life anew on a remote, bucolic farm in rural Sweden.
But
with that phone call, everything changes. Your mother's not well, his
father tells him. She's been imagining things--terrible, terrible
things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and has been committed to a
mental hospital.
Daniel prepares to rush to Sweden, on the first
available flight the next day. Before he can board the plane, his father
contacts him again with even more frightening news: his mother has been
released from the hospital, and he doesn't know where she is.
Then, he hears from his mother:
I'm
sure your father has spoken to you. Everything that man has told you is
a lie. I'm not mad. I don't need a doctor. I need the police. I'm about
to board a flight to London. Meet me at Heathrow.
Caught
between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel
becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent
tale of secrets, of lies, of a horrible crime and a conspiracy that
implicates his own father.
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