Janet lies murdered at the foot of the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace evening dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw...
Brought up in the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate, Janet turns to her risque Aunt Lila, to literature and to nature. People, birds and beasts move in a gleeful danse macabre through the lowering landscape in a tale that is as rich and atmospheric as it is witty and mordant. The family motto - Moriens sed Invictus (Dying but Unconquered) - is a fitting epitaph for this wild, courageous girl.
