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"Novels about love and loss are ten-a-penny, but this one brilliantly defies expectations to the very last page... terrifically compelling.' Daily Mail
Laura's nine-year-old daughter Betty is killed in a hit-and-run incident. Her life is turned upside down, and her grief unearths buried memories of her painful divorce from Betty's father David. When the death is ruled an accident, Laura takes revenge into her own hands, with devastating consequences.
'Like Zoรซ Heller, Doughty is masterful at combining the texture of ordinary, smugly middle-class, contemporary life with the hidden cliff edges of violence and hatred.' Sunday Telegraph
An incident-packed, emotionally fraught revenge tragedy... Emotionally raw, sexually frank, psychologically unpredictable. Guardian
'A powerful portrait of loss and its psychological consequences. Independent
ISBN:9780571254767
