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By the winner of the Betty Trask Prize – an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence ‘Complex and chilling' FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Masterful – uncanny and unsettling' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH ‘A disquieting study in estrangement' IRISH TIMES John and Liz have left the city to move to a remote house on the shores of a lake. But along with the boxes, they have brought their trouble with them. They find the new house already haunted – by their old disappointments and longing. Though the house is barely unpacked, Liz's sister, with her children and husband, have come to visit. Over the course of a hot, slow week, tensions simmer, things go unsaid. And as outsiders descend on the house the atmosphere grows claustrophobic, the pressure near unbearable. As summer draws to a close, and their family is thrown into crisis, John and Liz must confront what it means to belong to a place – and to each other. 'What animates the novel is a series of tensions: between material stability and emotional turmoil, idealism and conformity, speech and silence, love in the abstract and love in practice, between a life and the life' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘A finely drawn portrait not only of a couple in crisis, but of a world on the verge of disaster . McMullan writes with a masterful naturalism ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A masteralt in apprehension, exposing the fissures between an imagined life and its reality with stealthy power, and boldly upending reader expectations. Richly unsettling' DAILY MAIL