"First published as Die Mansarde by Claassen Verlag in 1969 First published in Great Britain by Quartet Books Limited in 2011 This edition published in Vintage Classics in 2025"--Title page verso

"An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. ... Then one day, a package arrives containing extracts from the narrator's diary, written twenty years before. Back then she had been sent away to a remote cottage in a bid to 'cure' her from an episode of unexplained sudden deafness. More mysterious packages containing old diary entries arrive. Who is sending them? And what did happened all those years ago in the forest?"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket

In English, translated from the German