Description

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves…

Publisher Review

A macabre but unforgettable tale * Guardian * One of his very best... Deliciously disturbing. * Big Issue in the North * A macabre but unforgettable tale * Guardian * One of his very best... Deliciously disturbing. * Big Issue in the North * An unforgettable tale * Guardian * Hypnotic * New Yorker * An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work * Observer * Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow * Sunday Times * A shocking book...irresistibly readable * New York Review of Books * Darkly impressive * The Times *