Gilda struggles to reconnect with the son shewalked out on, and views his marriage woman very different to herself as the ultimate rejection. Gilda responds with intensifying, outlandish obsession across a literary thriller set in a late-sixties London less free of its wartime past than it appears A darkly compelling, brilliantly moving novel perfect for fans of Zoe Heller, Liane Moriarty, Harriet Lane and Louise Doughty.
