'Hoffman is shrewd and witty about the networks of gossip and affection in town, and she evokes place superbly-spellbinding' Sunday Times

'When March returns to her childhood home to attend a funeral with her teenage daughter, she revisits the raw passion of an unrequited love. Abandoning her marriage and her own interests to resume an affair, she discovers her former lover is a collector, a modern Bluebeard with violent tendencies. A gripping novel that evokes the tensions of small-town life.' Elle