The debut novel by bestselling author Daniela Krien.

There are things that can be told straight away, others have their own time for telling, and some are untellable.

Summer 1990 and the border between East and West Germany has all but disappeared. Maria will soon be seventeen. She lives with Johannes on his parents’ farm, in the ›spider rooms‹ in the attic. She is fragile and dreamy, preferring to curl up with The Brothers Karamazov than go to school.
Forty-year-old Henner lives on the neighbouring farm, alone. The people from the village are wayr of him; he is surrounded by an air of tragedy to do with his past and yet he is a man whose charismatic aura causes jealousy. One day a coincidental glance, the next an unintentional touch, and Maria begins to feel a powerful and unfamiliar yearning that drives her into Henner’s house and into his arms.