SanctuaryMarlene Wegener is on the run. She has stolen something from her husband, something priceless, irreplaceable. But she doesn't get very far. When her car veers off a bleak midwinter road she takes refuge in the remote home of Simon Keller, a tough mountain man who lives alone with his demons. Here in her high mountain sanctuary, she begins to rekindle a sense of herself: tough, capable, no longer the trophy on a gangster's arm. But Herr Wegener does

winningly funny look into who - and what - we are and what makes us tick: Sex Power Money

resulting in a climax more haunting than any to be found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois

They have three great kids

but shows how they became our allies

Forty years later

she writes letters to her four daughters

and unrepentant

she considers

The latest title in the Forest Series

most days I do

migration and a lot of sex

and that 'docile minion' the Corgi