An unsettling, brilliant novel of family life from Orange-Prize-longlisted Janet Davey

‘We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present’ Tessa Hadley on Janet Davey;;Lorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching into adulthood. Lorna struggles in the claustrophobic loneliness of her home; she’s still angry at her ex-husband, uncomfortable around her father’s new girlfriend and finds it difficult to talk to her sons. Life seems precariously balanced. Then a shocking event occurs at the boys’ school and her world threatens to implode.