Harriet and the Piper

At Crownlands, a sprawling estate humming with summer heat and unspoken longings, Isabelle Carter plays the contented wife while her heart curdles with restless want. Her husband's indifference has left room for something dangerous: a flirtation with Anthony Pope, her son's friend, that threatens to become something more. Meanwhile, in the shadows of this polished world, Harriet Field the secretary watches everything with eyes that hold secrets of her own. As the season thickens, desire becomes indistinguishable from danger, and the careful architecture of wealth and propriety begins to crack. Norris writes with sharp precision about the prisons women build for themselves and the keys they may or may not choose to use.