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Winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge.

It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season...

In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel's desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known...

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Date

15 May 2025

Pages

272

ISBN

9780241999776

Winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge.

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Date

15 May 2025

Pages

272

ISBN

9780241999776

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