
Why did he go behind her back to sell his shares and take out another mortgage – and where is that money now? Nothing in her life can ever be the same again.

He is killed instantly.įrom the moment that Beth learns of his fate, her world begins to shatter around her. The opening morning of the nightmare seems like just another day, aside from the unexpected body of the bird…but while Beth showers and prepares for the day, David drives his car at full speed into the path of a lorry. But this year, the broken body of a bird, left on the porch, serves as an omen of deception, a shadow cast over the days to come…īeth March’s life seems unexceptional: she and her husband, David, have a conventional, quiet marriage.

Any other year, summer arrived with the swallows.
