Kit and Viv Kesteven enjoy a quiet, apparently conventional existence as invisible public servants in Canberra. Living in their beautiful family home, surrounded by relics of their parents' travels and their own childhood, brother and sister are outwardly unremarkable. But beneath their controlled veneer lie some deeply peculiar proclivities.
Into their lives and their home comes Jules Pyatt, an orphan and teacher, fresh from solitary travels around Europe. He becomes fascinated by the secret world of Tazyrik shared behind closed doors by Kit and Viv. Hesitantly at first, and then more boldly, brother and sister take him into their confidence, weaving a web of enchantment round the lonely and impressionable young scholar. Lured by his own longing for roots and a family, Pyatt willingly enters into their extraordinary scheme for the future.
'The Tazyrik Year' is a beautifully written, highly-original novel which explores the boundaries of relationship and the strange desires of the human heart. It has an atmosphere all of its own.
