Longlisted for the New Blood Dagger Award 2021'A darkly gripping and addictive read. I tore through it in a few days’ ESTHER FREUD'Deeply engrossing … an exquisite literary thriller’ PHILIPPA EAST‘Emotionally wrenching’ WALL STREET JOURNAL‘Impossible to put down’ TREVOR WOODA missing woman30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the ...

‘Beautifully written and entirely gripping’ CHRIS WHITAKER‘An evocative, haunting literary thriller’ ERIN KELLY'A terrific spine chiller’ TELEGRAPH'A sinister tale, beautifully told' THE SUNThey thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong.Maxine has bought a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye – but already the dou...

"Emotionally spry, smartly suspenseful...vibrates with Hitchcockian atmosphere." -- Booklist (starred review)Combining the emotional power and dual narrative style of Before We Were Yours with the nuanced, layered, and atmospheric mystery of The Dry, a powerful debut novel revolving around a shocking disappearance, two neighbor families, and shameful secrets from the past that refuse to stay buried.It is 1997, and ...

‘Beautifully written and entirely gripping’ CHRIS WHITAKER‘An evocative, haunting literary thriller’ ERIN KELLY'A terrific spine chiller’ TELEGRAPH'A sinister tale, beautifully told' THE SUNThey thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong.Maxine has bought a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye – but already the dou...

Longlisted for the New Blood Dagger Award 2021'A darkly gripping and addictive read. I tore through it in a few days’ ESTHER FREUD'Deeply engrossing … an exquisite literary thriller’ PHILIPPA EAST‘Emotionally wrenching’ WALL STREET JOURNAL‘Impossible to put down’ TREVOR WOODA missing woman30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the ...

Combining the emotional power and dual narrative style of Before We Were Yours with the nuanced, layered, and atmospheric mystery of The Dry, a powerful debut novel revolving around a shocking disappearance, two neighbor families, and shameful secrets from the past that refuse to stay buried.It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating he...