The First Stone (Paperback)

Eight year old Donna's father died in mysterious circumstances when she was a baby. Insecure, naive and the victim of her older sister's vindictive rages Donna is prone to fantasies in which she conjures the friends she does not have in real life. When a stranger takes up residence next door she imagines him to be the father she never knew - unaware that he is a member of a criminal syndicate of bullion robbers using the house as their operations centre. The stranger's guilty past and Donna's innocent, needy present become points of departure in this story of loss, connection, betrayal and growing up.