Sleek, dark and dangerous. Celia Rees has ventured into new territory and returned with explosives

Patrick Ness

In a remarkable book that manages to be both lyrical and gritty in the same breath, Celia Rees takes us into an apparently ordinary world where love, betrayal, faith and violence appear hand in hand on virtually every page. I love it for its deceptively gentle prose, its totally believable characters and its vortex of a plot

Melvin Burgess

Its momentum is impressive

Daily Mail

This is a fantastic novel - dark and ominous but at the same time intimate and quite beautiful

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