'A truthful, exciting, agonising adult love triangle. An emotional labyrinth, with monsters, great risks - and survival.' Laline Paull, author of Baileys Prize-shortlisted The Bees

'A novel of great tenderness and intelligence . . . A grown-up love tangle with interesting, grown-up men and women.' Andrew Miller, Costa Prize-winning author of Pure

'What a lucid, subtle and beautiful writer she is, with a gift for slicing through to the complexities of a relationship or a situation. Reading anything by Mary Loudon is to peer through the bell jar to the truths captured inside it.' Elizabeth Buchan, author of The Good Wife and The New Mrs Clifton

'Nothing I say could match the emotional lure and its sustaining that is here. First person love - real, lived - a tense, irresistible read.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News broadcaster