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V techenie mnogih let v Barkli-Kouv, tihom gorodke na poberezh'e Severnoy Karoliny, sheptalis' o Bolotnoy Devchonke. I kogda v konce 1969-go nashli telo Cheza, mestnogo pleyboya, zhiteli gorodka srazu zhe zapodozrili Kia Klark - devushku, chto otshel'nicey obitala na bolotah s rannego detstva. Chuvstvitel'naya i umnaya Kia i v samom dele nazyvala svoim domom boloto, a druz'yami – bolotnyh ptic i zverey. No vot nastupaet pora vzrosleniya, i Kia otkryvaet dlya sebya sovsem inuyu storonu zhizni, v ney prosypaetsya zhelanie lyubit' i byt' lyubimoy. I Kia s radost'yu pogruzhaetsya v etot nevedomyy novyy mir – poka ne proishodit nemyslimoe. Roman znamenitogo biologa Delii Ouens – nastoyaschaya oda prirode, nezhnaya istoriya o vzroslenii, ob odinochestve, o svyazi lyudey, o tom, nuzhny li lyudi voobsche drug drugu. I v to zhe vremya eto temnaya, zagadochnaya istoriya s ubiystvom, kotoroe to li bylo, to li net.