The Tower

Once upon a time, there was atoweron a hill, beyondthedark trees, somewhere north. An octagonaltoweron two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined tothetowerby her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annie’s story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piecethepast together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging atthestrings ofthehow, why and who of stories, begins to unravelthevery idea of storytelling itself. Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore,The Toweris an extraordinarybook about power, abuse and why we don’t always tellthestory we set out to tell.