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Book SynopsisA compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan lives
Trade ReviewA quietly dramatic dissection of the way past loves can haunt the present * The Daily Telegraph *
...an emotional whirlwind, all passionate yearnings, raw pain and messy truths; powerful in nailing the complications of love without missing it out the power of the emotions involved * The Scotsman *
This Rebecca-esque ghost story puts at its heart the gnawing insecurities that any act of intimacy soon invites * The Independent *
O'Farrell's writing has a crystalline precision of idiom - there isn't one image that fails to ignite recognition * Independent on Sunday *
O'Farrell has honourably equalled the success of her first novel, After You'd Gone, with a story that is certainly as absorbing - and just as beautifully written * Sunday Express *
