introduction
Childhood betrayal casts a long shadow…
At a bleak boys’ boarding school in Cornwall in the eighties when bullying is rife, Will and his best friend, Luke, are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving.
Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of a painful childhood come flooding back to haunt them both.
Will’s wife, Harmony, is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, and wishes Will would open up about what happened. But as Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husband’s past, Luke, and soon all three are caught in a tangled web of guilt and desire...
reviews
“That rare thing – a gripping page-turner that’s also emotionally intelligent and very moving. I gulped it down”
“A beautifully crafted tale. Emotional, dark and so very compelling”
“A beautiful, sharply written novel about how we carry the past with us”
“A compelling, moving and captivating book that had me hooked from the first page”
“Astonishingly good and utterly haunting”
