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‘The exhilarating and exhausting life of a high-end restaurant is beautifully recreated’ Irish Independent

When Hannah learns that star chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault, she’s thrown back to her summer waitressing at his high-end Dublin restaurant. A glamorous world of talent and testosterone, where attention from Daniel morphed into something darker…

Now the restaurant is shuttered and Daniel is faced with the reality of the courtroom. His wife Julie is hiding from paparazzi lenses behind the bedroom curtains.

Surrounded by the wreckage of the past, their three voices reveal a story of power, complicity and the courage that it takes to face the truth.

‘Superb’ Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days

‘Rich, rare and well done’ Irish Times

‘Coolly furious’ Marie Claire

‘Smart, stylish and darkly funny’ Aingeala Flannery, author of The Amusements

‘Powerful and compelling’ Joseph O’Connor, author of The Starless Sea

‘A hugely gripping literary page-turner’ Claire Powell, author of At the Table

‘Prose as sharp as a chef’s best knife’ Victoria Kennefick, author of Egg/Shell

Publisher Review

'Absolutely compelling. Every page fizzes with energy and observation. Gilmartin combines effortless, elegant writing with a momentum that propels you onwards, barely pausing until you've reached the end. A masterful novel' - Rebecca Wait, author of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way 'A powerful and compelling novel from a very gifted writer' - Joseph O'Connor, author of My Father's House and The Star of the Sea 'A hugely gripping literary page-turner. Sharp, visceral and shocking' - Claire Powell, author of At the Table 'Sarah Gilmartin's second novel is consummately done. The prose is clean, crisp, perfectly-filleted; the pace and tension perfectly controlled, to the very last page. Superb.' - Lucy Caldwell 'A brilliantly observed immersive novel which tells the 'me too' story from every angle' - Amber Medland, author of Wild Pets 'The exhausting and exhilarating life of a high-end restaurant is beautifully recreated in this masterful novel . . . deeply satisfying . . . A writer correctly confident in her recipe' - Emma Healey (author of Elizabeth is Missing) Irish Independent 'Fantastic... a layered and thoughtful story about misbehaviour and who bears the impact of it' - Fiction of 2023, The Journal