The Sown Women

Selene had used the crockery jug for pussy willows. That night, before they had even moved the body, she'd gathered up the silvered twigs, put them back in the jug, and set it on the wooden chest under the living room window, for all to see in the light of morning. But their mother had taken it up in both her hands and looked at Selene and whispered, "They can find anything now, anywhere, things we can't see. Wash it, Alex. We'll find a place for it."

Alex and her sister Selene, both suspects in the murder of a cruel stalker, flee their city homes and their embittered mother to find sanctuary at the summer home of old friends. For a while, the sisters do find solace: in memories of their childhood holidays; in the mystical landscape; and in the company of the women regulars of the Bethel Hills. But as the days pass, the men in their lives become sewn into the fabric of their yearnings; dark secrets unfold about the past and the disturbing truth about the stalker's murder. Alex begins the search for her troubled mother's heart, and journeys toward her own spiritual centre.