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Book SynopsisPoignant'' Sunday Times
Gripping.'' Metro
Fascinating.' The Times
Enrapturing.'' Red Magazine
Miss Dilys Barltrop is a devoted member of The Panacea Society, a cult populated almost entirely by virtuous single women.
When she strikes up a friendship with Grace a new recruit God finally seems to be smiling upon her. But Dilys is wary of her leader's zealotry, and fearful of those who watch her every move, hoping for a sign of the deep and terrible failings she struggles to keep hidden. Faith is supplanted by doubt, and as both women come to question what is true and fear what is real, Dilys will have to learn the true cost of absolute devotion...
Trade Review'A remarkable story, remarkably told... Claire McGlasson is a brave and brilliant new voice in fiction.' - Jess Kidd, author of
HIMSELF and
THE HOARDER
'An extremely accomplished debut... gripping, unsettling and ultimately extremely moving. It is a tale beautifully and sensitively told that continues to haunt me.' - Ruth Hogan, author of
THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS
