In the novel it’s hinted that Käthe drowned her daughter. But I didn’t read anything that hinted she did it because she thought Alan wouldn’t have wanted to be with her if she had a child from before. Yet this is what the wiki states as to why she drowned her. I thought early in the book Alan seeing Käthe with a woman and a child, that the child was meant to be a ghost. Not that the reader would know it at that point in the story. Do you know specifically where it is implied she killed her daughter to be with Alan?
Is the movie close to what happens in the book? Is it worth checking out?
by TheSkinoftheCypher