Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The
Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.
Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their
elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly
withdraws from them, the two are left to fend for themselves.
Laura's boss Felix is there to help, even offering to marry Laura if she
will have him. However Felix is not all that he seems and little by
little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty
and his need to control.