Description
'A wonderfully moody, moving novel' - Sarah Waters
'Lyrical, intense, and haunting' - Chloe Aridjis
'Beautiful and seething' - Claire-Louise Bennet
'Utterly unpredictable' - Financial Times
'Gripping' - Literary Review
Sometimes love isn’t where you belong
In a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness and stability he needs. They seem made for each other, and move to a remote house in the countryside - but there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino.
Descending into pathological jealousy and resentment towards a married man who had been Franca’s lover, Gino is unable to stop himself imagining the worst, and embarks on a violent path that has catastrophic consequences.
Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK’s most unpredictable and celebrated writers.