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In the blazing summer of 1976, when Britain is gripped by drought, fire and a strange, airless heat, the Robinson family are living under pressures of their own. Then, on a Sunday in June, a single terrible moment changes the course of all their lives.

What follows is a story of love, secrecy and survival. As the years unfold, a mother and her children, their neighbours and lovers, must live in the aftermath of that day, each carrying their own version of what happened. At the centre is Philip, trying to make sense of a childhood marked by tenderness and fear, of first love discovered in secret, and of memory’s shifting, unreliable truths.

Sweeping yet intimate, richly atmospheric and deeply humane, this is a novel about what lies hidden within ordinary lives: about damage and inheritance, grief and desire, and the fragile bonds by which people remain tethered to one another. It is an unforgettable debut about the stories families tell, the silences they keep, and the ways in which love, in all its forms, persists.

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