A quiet Irish town is thrilled by the news: a body has been found in a lake. It is impossible to identify him, but, in all likelihood, this is the pharmacist's wife who disappeared a month ago, who loved to wander along the shore in the evenings. She was strange, this Helen, she was always sad, although it would seem that what she lacked was beauty itself, a devoted husband, two children. . . Twelve-year-old Kit discovers her mother's suicide letter and burns it without reading it: what if this is a confession of her intention to take her own life? After all, suicides are not buried in consecrated ground. And only years later, Kit will have a chance to find out what really happened to Helen. . . Irish writer and journalist Maeve Binchy (1940-2012) became famous all over the world after the release of her first novel, Light a Candle. Binchi's books have been translated into dozens of languages, and their total circulation exceeds 40 million copies. In 1998, the novel Crystal Lake became the best-selling book in Ireland. Like Binchy's famous bestseller "The House on Tara Road", it is dedicated to strong women in search of happiness. An exciting, true and bitter story about love, betrayal and redemption.