A Cool Dark Place_Demy PB-Strip & Rebind

About the bookzephyr undertakes an excavation into the depths of her family's closet and all the skeletons that it holds in a cool dark place. When her father's suicide turns her world upside down zephyr must deal with shock after shock as her mother reveals to her dark demons from their past. The first one is that the man whom she believed to be her father is in fact not. Perhaps the darkest demon and the most twisted yet alluring character of the book is zephyr's grandfather don. Zephyr learns that much of her life her mother's life and the situations that have shaped them both are consequences of don's manipulative actions. Don is on his death-bed but that doesn't prevent him from stealing the limelight every time. He is self-centred flamboyant and sometimes over-the-top but always driving the story. Family dynamics and their specific influence on characters and life as a whole have been fodder for many fiction writers. This novel is no different in that regard but what s