The Vinegar Jar — Berlie Doherty

After a brief affair with a charming young tap dancer, Rose Doran is left with a baby who isn't her own and a hunger for real love that her husband cannot satisfy. Isolated and vulnerable, she begins to tune in to the mysterious, inviting noises coming from the house next door, and soon she is drawn into the extraordinary - and imaginary - world of her strange neighbor. It is a world she will slip into with frightening ease, and come out of only after she has almost gone too far.