'If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife, I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. Or at least, not as much as I thought I did...'Alex is a solitary London lawyer who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night in Oxford, all of his happiness vanishes. Shrouded in shock and grief, he returns to Oxford that winter and begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding Rac...

‘A brilliant depiction of both romantic rapture and heartfelt delusion’ (Daily Telegraph), Slack-Tide is the new sucker punch of a novel from Elanor Dymott, author of Every Contact Leaves a TraceIt is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She meets Robert – exuberant, generous, apparently care-free – and they fall in love with breath-taking speed...

'With the tension of a Nicci French thriller, the intellectual fizz of Donna Tartt's The Secret History and the very best of Maggie O'Farrell's unnerving readability, Dymott is a classy storyteller' ElleFrom the author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace comes a story of family and the lies we tell in order to surviveFollowing the death of her famous father, Ruthie returns to the family villa in remote, wild Greece.Aft...

A beautifully crafted novel about the tragic effects of a devastating childhood."There was a child in our courtyard. I saw a child there, standing by the fountain. She was there, then she was gone."On the death of the celebrated photographer Max Hollingbourne, his daughter, Ruthie, returns to his villa in Greece after fifteen years in exile. The youngest and estranged member of a once close-knit London family, Ruthie is haunted by a dark secret fro...

“Gorgeous . . . a murder mystery that’s also a brilliant meditation on love and memory and loss.”—Maile MeloyElanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut tells the story of Alex, a solitary lawyer who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one midsummer night on the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex’s life as he knows it vanishes.He returns to Oxford that winter, and, through the shrou...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Slack-Tide by Elanor Dymott, read by Lucy Briers.‘By midsummer the thing between us was finished, and it was as if a storm had torn the roof from over me.’It is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and Elizabeth is fiercely protective of her independence. She meets Robert – exuberant, generous, apparently care-free – and they fall in love w...