From the awardwinning author of The Scamp Jennifer Pashley is back with a searing literary noir about what it means to live on the margins of society and what happens when no one is watching... Pearl Jenkins is a nobody. She was a woman who lived as a hermit in the woods. One day shes nowhere to be found and all thats left behind is a pool of blood and a child no one knew existed raised completely off the grid and in the grip of Pearls manic paranoia. Kateri Fisher is used to being an outsider.