Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be....

From one of Granta's New Voices of 2008: a stunningly accomplished debut novel, set in Australia, about the ineffable ties between fathers and sons - about the wars they fight between themselves and with others, and about the...

And there is Jake's unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back. Longlisted...