BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Irresistible . . . This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it - THE TIMES

Fantastic writing . . . a sharp study of a very female torture - GUARDIAN

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.

‘Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking’ - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

‘A brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic’ - BOSTON GLOBE

‘The best book in a long time on female friendships . . . remarkable, funny and serious, brimming with uncanny wisdom’ - COSMOPOLITAN

Pages: 512, Dimensions: 19.9x19.9cm