Tess Braithwaite, the youngest daughter of Ernest Braithwaite and his wife Madeleine, is the main character in this story of the brutal assault of this young girl and her revenge twenty-five years later. In the 1950s and '60s, the Braithwaite's with their five children, live at Mill Cottage on the outskirts of the small village of Danby in Dorset England. The family struggles to survive, as modern technology takes over and eventually strips Ernest...