Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dreams began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!" These are the first sentences of Rendell's novel. A family has to deal with the sudden death of the father ...

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