FROM THE COSTA AWARDWINNING WOMENS PRIZESHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND Frances Jellico is dying A man who calls himself the vicar visits hoping to extract a deathbed confession He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969 when Frances tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple Cara and Peter She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days lavish dinners and elaborate lies and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the coupleWere the signs there right from the beginningOr was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruitCompulsive A latterday Daphne du Maurier THE TIMESClever compelling A rewarding slow burn PAULA HAWKINSBewitching otherworldly full of dark foreboding Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller SCOTSMANSinister and suspenseful this gothic novel simmers with guilt lust and envy MAIL ON SUNDAYA darkly smouldering superior psychological thriller DAILY MAIL
