Up-and-coming composer Ralph is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, more sprite than boy or girl. From the moment their worlds collide, Ralph is consumed by an obsession to make Daphne his.
Years later, Daphne, now a mother to a twelve-year-old daughter, is forced to confront
the truth of her own childhood – and an act of violence that has lain hidden for decades.
Bold and provocative, 'Putney' is about the moral lines we tell ourselves and the secrets we bury.
