Lorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching uncomfortably into adulthood. In the claustrophobic loneliness of her home, Lorna orbits around her sons and struggles to talk to them; she’s still angry at her ex-husband, and works quietly as the only employee left in a deserted London archive. Life seems precariously balanced. Then a shocking event occurs at the boys’ school and her world threatens to implode. Praised for her taut and subtle prose, Janet Davey returns with an unsettling novel about family and strangers. Her portrait of lives at crisis point is a masterful study in rendering the everyday beautiful and surprising.
