'Great fun... the suspense slips its slow coils around you' Daily
Mail Daddy, there's a man in our room... This is the chilling
announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet,
suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed.
It's been nine months since Pippa - their mother - suddenly died
and they've been unsettled ever since, so Alfie assumes they've
probably had a nightmare. Still, he goes to check to reassure the
girls. As expected he finds no man, but in the following days the
girls begin to refer to someone called Black Mamba. What seemingly
begins as an imaginary friend quickly develops into something
darker, more obsessive, potentially violent. Alfie finds himself
struggling to cope, and so he turns to Julia - Pippa's twin and a
psychotherapist - for help. But as Black Mamba's coils tighten
around the girls, Alfie and Julia must contend with their own
unspoken sense of loss, their unacknowledged attraction to one
another, and the true character of the presence poisoning the
twins' minds... A darkling tale of tragedy, hauntings and sexual
desire, Black Mamba is a novel of a father's love for his
struggling daughters, and a widower's growing love for a woman
after his wife's death. With smart, gothicky touches and a large
and generous challenge to our assumptions of what and who
constitutes a modern family, it explores both the limits we'll go
to for our children and the sunken taboos of grief - of how erotics
can still exist, and can even be life giving, after suffering loss.
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