Why would a man want to destroy his brother's wife?
For John Smith, a man with a corrupted conscience, the motive is simple. Someone has stolen the only person he has ever loved or was ever capable of loving: his twin brother, Cannon. Without him, life has no meaning, and Johnny will stop at nothing to be his brother's keeper. But Cannon does not want his brother any more. He's married now and his wife both loves and needs him. He and Johnny may once have been disfigured orphans in a storm, but he's changed that too, with the help of a good dentist. Johnny is afraid of the dentist.
Cannon, sometime bombmaker and gifted artist, goes into hiding rather than risk Johnny's destructive brotherly love. Sarah Fortune, an unusual lawyer who has made helping the needy and eccentric into her own kind of art form, shields Cannon and, more importantly, his wife, the real target, the one who deserves the worst kind of pain Johnny can inflict. But is Cannon really telling the truth about Johnny? Is Johnny really intent on inflicting unendurable pain on the woman who has hijacked his brother's affections? Sarah doesn't really believe in evil and that could make her very vulnerable.
Widely acclaimed as Frances Fyfield's most mesmerising and suspenseful novel to date, 'Staring At The Light' will keep you on the very edge of your seat.
