The new novel by Joanna Briscoe, the bestselling author of Sleep With Me.

'A meditation on the lengths we will go to for love ... Briscoe is brilliant at conveying the obsessiveness of teenage love, ratcheting up the tension until the reader is every bit as involved as the character ... beguilingly good' Observer 'Briscoe weaves compelling fiction. The prose is rich, the setting evocative ... To be hooked by a book is a treat, and I certainly enjoyed my time in this one's tangles' Guardian 'Addictive' Daily Mail 'A haunting, richly satisfying novel that plays with disturbing complexity on the question of how far it's possible, or even desirable, to escape from the past' Literary Review

Joanna Briscoe is the author of Mothers and Other Lovers, Skin and the highly acclaimed Sleep with Me, which was published in ten countries and adapted for ITV Drama by Andrew Davies. She has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian; she is currently a literary critic for the Guardian, and has contributed to all the major newspapers and magazines. She lives in London with her family.