Unhappy in her job at a London daycare center, Rowan answers an advertisement for a live-in nanny, one with a very generous salary, for architects Bill and Sandra Elincourt.
But which child died under her care, what brought Rowan to Scotland in the first place, and what were the events that led up to that fateful event? The answers to those questions slowly reveal themselves, with each answer resulting in a myriad of new questions. Rowan Caine, a young woman with secrets, stands accused of murdering one of the four children in her care while serving as a nanny. But Ware hauls the story into the 21st century by making the technology of today as menacing as the story’s isolated location, a Scottish estate.
It includes a nanny alone, a house that appears to be haunted, and children who aren’t quite what they seem. Ware’s excellent psychological thriller, as the title suggests, references Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.
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