‘it is discomfiting, often challenging and always brilliant’ - NZ Listener

The latest enthralling novel from the author of The Night Book and Soon.

Eloise Hay lives on the Starlight Peninsula. Every weekday she travels into the city to work at Q TV Studio, assisting with the production of a current affairs show. One night she receives a phone call that will change her life forever.

Thrown into the turmoil of a sudden marriage break-up, Eloise begins to perceive that a layer of the world has been hidden from her. Seeking answers, she revisits a traumatic episode from her past, and in doing so encounters an odd-eyed policewoman, a charismatic obstetrician, a German psychotherapist, and a flamboyant internet pirate wanted by the United States Government. Each of these characters will reveal something about the life of Eloise Hay, answering questions that she hasn’t, until now, had the courage to ask.

Tracing the lines that run through our society, from the interior life of one lonely young woman to the top tier of influence in the country, Charlotte Grimshaw’s powerful novel demonstrates how little separates us and how close we really are- rich and poor, famous and hidden, virtuous and criminal.

Longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Book Awards- ‘A masterclass in how to write a potentially unreliable and disconcerting central character … An exquisitely calibrated examination of truth and consequence, and a superb crime story.