A haunting novella from the award-winning author of Questions of Travel. Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden: she wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still. Worlds of meaning spin out of perfectly chosen words in this rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story by Michelle de Kretser.