内容简介：
For three generations of Pilkingtons, Tremity Cove on the Devon coast has been the perfect summer home. Then onto the scene - and into a shocking discovery - stumbles Desmond: immature, mother's boy, solitary birdwatcher, catalyst. Desmond's discovery involves the police, and an enforced stay at Tremity Cove uncovers long-past events, and false assumptions, which bring about the final, scandalous tragedy...