SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it TESSA HADLEYPowerfully compelling GUARDIANUnbelievably good ELIZABETH DAYComplex and nuanced the perfect definition of summer reading LUCY CALDWELLSubtle, complex, ambitiousTHE TIMESA Guardian Book of the Year 2024A stunning new novel of power, desire and the secrets all families carry, from the acclaimed author of Nightingale, Marina Kemp.When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made it. And yet as the week unfolds it is not Don but his children and unknowable wife, Lydia, who come to intrigue Zoe most. On the fringes, Dons youngest, Nemony, watches as her older siblings begin to navigate the treacherous waters of the adult world. When her adored oldest sister makes a terrible mistake, the holiday ends suddenly, shattering the fragile balance of their parents marriage and the siblings lives.Many years later and in the wake of loss, the events of that summer continue to haunt. Nemony, now a lonely new mother herself, strikes up a chance friendship with Zoe. With her support, Nemony attempts to grapple with the casual damage enacted by her father. But as their relationship deepens, she is soon forced to question the true extent of Zoes fascination with the Travers family.Tracing their lives through Sicily, London and the old mining towns of Appalachia, Nemony must uncover the stories untold about her implacable...

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct; Classification: FA; Weight: 644 g; Dimensions: 224 x 143 x 38

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