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Book SynopsisA Best Book of January at O, The Oprah Magazine
A Best Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Times (London), and The Irish Times
[Moss] writes beautifully about . . . souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way they'd hoped . . . There's little doubt, reading Moss, that you're in the hands of a sophisticated and gifted writer. Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The acclaimed author of Ghost Wall offers a new, devastating, masterful novel of subtle menace.
They rarely speak to one another, but they do take noticewatching from the safety of the park's rented cabins, peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish summer day, forming judgments based on what little they know of their temporary neighbors. It is the longest day of the year, and as the hours pass nearly imperceptibly, twelve people shift from being strangers, to bystanders, to alliestheir idle curiosity sparked i
