Awards
Costa First Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Judges: "Menacing, compelling and beautifully written."
From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister Vivien to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. Selling off the family furniture over the years, she has gradually shut off each wing of the house. Only the attic remains untouched. There, collected over several generations, the walls are lined with pinned and preserved moths... With Vivien's arrival, long-forgotten memories are stirred up, and the secrets that have separated the sisters threaten to disrupt much more than Ginny's carefully ordered world.
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