A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD,
SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. ' A very good read
indeed' Matt Haig 'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India
Knight 'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry
Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford
to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't
afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and
move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon.
Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so
angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been
intolerably wounded. Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why
is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their
unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet
it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and
violence which will rise up to threaten them. Sally Verity, happily
married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country
life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmer's wife; and when
Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a
local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year,
the lives of all will be changed for ever. A suspenseful black
comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its
depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal
interplay between money and marriage.
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