Nicholas Penn has disappeared. Is he dead, as his wife fears, or has he moved to pastures new, as his mistress suspects?Psyche's Garden is a new telling of the Psyche and Cupid myth set in Bell, a small town in South Australia - a town in its last gasp, in the grip of drought and decline, standing in the path of a raging bushfire; a town where something of the presence of the gods and their cruel handiwork can be traced…The novel begins in the modern day with Deidre, a woman from Sydney, visiting the Bell cemetery. Deidre is ostensibly researching local history, but we soon learn that she is seeking to find the man with whom she had had an affair ten years earlier, the father of her s 9781311903730