The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

After the death of Uncle Jacob, the man who oversaw his education and passage to Canada from Ghana as a penance for having betrayed his father, Samuel inherits his house.

In a moment of triumph, Samuel quits his desperately boring civil service job, and convinces his grudging family to take up residence in Jacob's house.

His wife and his odd silent twins reluctantly agree and begin to resurrect the house from the weeds, mould and decay.

The deep rot is not only in the house. Their new town also has some very dubious characters.

But the real strangeness, if not madness, resides in the peculiar and threatening behaviour of his daughters.

The life he has struggled so hard to improve begins to disintegrate around him as a dark current of menace is turned upon the Tyne family.