"Beautifully observed, deeply human" Marina Kemp

Can we live fully when we are too afraid to be revealed? Rinan is ready to find out. Rinan expresses her inner world through line and color. This summer, however, back at her home in the western country, she seeks distraction in the heat and noise. The art school in London has taken away her confidence and sense of security: it is better for now to be swept away by the hotel kitchen where she works, where the pressure is high and the dangers more obvious. Sharp knives. Hot dishes. Little time to think.

Her dad, Dominic, worries about Rinan but is relieved to have her close. Her stepmother, Melissa, is on alert, trying to tread carefully. But there is also Callum, right across from the chef, with his controlled manners and his gaze full of expectation. There is attraction. There is everything that comes next.

"The deliberate diminution of a partner, the sorrow of their inner light, is something that so many of us have either experienced or observed in a friend – and Price reveals it here, with tender care and quietly devastating precision" Observer

Accolades for What Red Was: "One of the most powerful debuts you will ever read" Stylist "Hot and original" Sunday Times "An urgent story told beautifully" - Dolly Alderton

Pages: 256, Dimensions: 14.3x14.3cm