Anna hasn’t slept in months. Stranded on a Hebridean island with two smallchildren, she struggles to write or think without a room of her own. When herson finds a baby’s skeleton buried in the garden, Anna must confront the island'stroubled past, while finding a way to live with the complex demands ofmotherhood.

‘Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals’ - Kate Saunders, The Times