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An extraordinary novel that takes the wrapping off the rosy picture of perfect family life. 'You were there, Richard. You lived in that war zone your parents called home'. Richard Cory Hayes is the rock of the family, the King of the Mountains, so when his sister kills her husband, it is to him that she naturally turns. But her only defense will be that the way in which she - and her brothers and sisters - were brought up by their ultra-respectable family was such that a plea of temporary insanity can be accepted. So can Richard and the rest of the family look at what the family life was really like and still survive?