The malediction

This haunting and compelling novel is concerned with a country house in Provence- the Moulin de Pologne- and with the Coste family who built it. But this Family is doomed by a curious and ruthless fate to destruction. The battle of the first Coste and of his descendants with this curse, and the way in which this works, with intervening periods of calm and illusory peace. form the thread of the narrative. To gain its ends, fate makes use of the mo...