Book description
A novel set during a summer weekend in a country house where eight-year-old Mary Ann and her friend Lolly watch with excitement, fear and anger as the owner of the house and their parents abandon the conventions of adult behavior.
Love, it seemed to the children, came gift-wrapped with hate and pain.
On the weekend that the Hubbards and Zimmers go to visit Anna on her idyllic upstate farm, a strange thing happens. For as Mary Ann plays her make-believe games with Lolly, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell which are the adults of the party, and which are the children …
