The Lighted Rooms

At forty-eight, Eloise McAllister loves living alone. Her mother Joan is eighty, a gifted pianist denied the delights of performance by old age and arthritic joints. Both women know that Joan can't live alone indefinitely so Eloise has arranged a place for her at The Albany, a home for the elderly. Before Joan moves in, Eloise takes her on one last trip to South Africa, where a shopping centre is all that remains of the farm where Joan's brother lies buried. Joan's mind has been playing extraordinary tricks on her for some time. In the dust and heat, long-interred family spirits begin to stir. Soon she has created a drama more real than anything her doctors could imagine.