Working back from the culminating tragedy and told by four narrators, the lies that many lives are founded on receive pitiless scrutiny in this formally masterful thriller drawing on the author's experiences working for London Underground A boy exiles himself from his family through a shocking act of violence. Years later, having built a new life he returns to try to understand his past. He attempts to reconcile with his family but the closer he gets to them, the more he sets the course for disaster.
