The Silkworm is about a mid-life crisis - a transitional stage of life that affects everyone. Can a woman become so bored of her "perfect" family life that its complacency drives her to create a parallel reality full of suspicion, recrimination, betrayal, and destruction. Is anyone's life ever what it seems? Will she stop on the edge just short of destroying everything that took years to create? This novel explores the themes of friendship, loyalty,...