Tree Of Hands by Ruth Rendell Paperback Book 9780099434702

Once when Benet was about fourteen she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife It was some time since Benet had seen her psychologically disturbed mother So when Mopsa arrived at the airport looking drab and colourless in a dowdy grey suit Benet tried not to hate her