The Tari Bird is a tense, beautifully written psychological thriller in which the young heroine recounts her childhood spent in the secluded gatehouse of the ancient Shrove estate, alone with her unsociable mother. At seventeen years old, Lisa had never traveled on a bus or train, and had never played with others her age. She hardly knows the world, which her mother Eve calls disastrous. However, Lisa has to leave the lodge because Eve killed a man. And he is not her first victim.