'Wonderful. I read it late into the night... quite disbelieving this was a first novel' Esther Freud 'What good popular fiction should be... a moving, well-observed tale' Mail on Sunday 'very moving... Hannah MacDonald is a natural writer, with a sharp eye for telling detail, a felicitous turn of phrase, a fine and judicious feel for the physicality of life... wonderful' Tim Pears, author of In a Land of Plenty 'A beautifully written novel, enigmatic and full of unexpected turns' Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Hannah MacDonald is Editorial Director of Ebury Press. This is her first novel.