When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn't hesitate long before going home with him. There is something undeniably attractive about Richard - and irresistibly dangerous, too. Now, after eighteen exhilarating but fraught months, Kate knows she has to finish their relationship and hopes that will be the end of it.
A post-Du Maurier domestic gothic thriller in the Maggie O'Farrell/Sophie Hannah mode ... Whitehouse is a skilful, attentive writer