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An Observer Best Debut of the Year

A Granta Best Young British Novelist

I loved this book JULIA ARMFIELD
Exhilarating MONICA HEISEY
Astonishing ANDREA LAWLOR

Should be on everyones summer reading list
iNEWS

Scorching One of our favourite reads
TIME OUT

A Guardian Essential Summer Read

A sensual debut novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and a headmasters wife unfolding across a single a heatwave summer

In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of matron There she meets Mrs S the headmasters wife a woman who is her polar opposite assured sophisticated a paragon of femininity
Over the course of a long restless heatwave the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older womans world with their unspoken desire blooming into an illicit affair of electric intensity But as the summer begins to fade both know that a choice must finally be made

Desire crackles through these pages like fire
TELEGRAPH

Wildly sexy I kept forgetting to exhale CHARLOTTE MENDELSON

Theres nothing else like it out there
THE TIMES

Compulsively readable beautiful brilliant
OBSERVER

Moody generous and brilliant JESSIE BURTON
Rare and thrilling SARAH WINMAN