Keepers of the House

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1982 Exceptional Observer Lydia Sinclair was just seventeen when she arrived on her husbands estate in the Andes, and from the first day she felt that she belonged there. Keepers of the House tells the story of a young English woman newly married to a sugar planter. As her husband, the last of the Beltran family line, retreats into himself, Lydia finds solace in the stories of Benito, the familys oldest retainer. Unearthing the Beltran familys tragic history, she weaves together a rich gothic tapestry in which the fantastic legends of the past are intertwined with the present.