About the book: year / Toby Hennessy is a carefree lucky guy who is always lucky in everything. But one day he encounters robbers in his house, who brutally beat him and leave him to die. And even here Toby’s luck did not change - he survived and is gradually recovering. Trying to recover from his injuries, both physical and mental, Toby decides to live with his uncle in the old family home, which everyone calls the Ivy House. However, Toby's hopes for a calm, measured life in his childhood home are not destined to come true. A frightening discovery is discovered in an old elm tree that turns the lives of Toby himself and all his loved ones upside down. The investigation of an old crime opens up an abyss for Toby: he realizes that he can no longer believe everything that he never doubted, that perhaps his happy past is a fiction, a mirage, and he himself is not at all the sweet, nice guy he always was. considered himself. A complex psychological detective story about how our actions change us and what we are capable of if we no longer know who we really are..