Beautifully written but hard to categorise. Sold as a crime novel but definitely not that! Draws you in but painfully slowly - it takes the lead character over a hundred pages to get to the top of the stairs. And why are we suddenly in Arizona? Owen Sheers has amazing talent - read this for the love of the English language - but this book needs focus and patience to get the best from it.

Short, subtle story of a young woman's traumatic upbringing, softly told with a sense of real menace. The 'big reveal' is well hidden - speed read and you'll miss it. Wonderful.

Read a Kindle sample and hooked enough to pay full price to find out what happens next. Reads like a vintage novel though it isn't, it's short, dark, intriguing and very different to anything else I've read, ever. An isolated stately home, a wealthy man close to death and a breathtakingly beautiful car woven into a mysterious tale of haunting and murder. Loved every page.

Loved the beginning of this and had high hopes for it but the ending was weak at best, ridiculous at worst. Disappointing 📕😒

Wasn't sure when I started this was for me - thinking it was maybe YA and maybe it is - but I was completely and utterly hooked within the first five pages. It's a first person narrative about a group of teenagers held in since kind of sanatorium, but the truth about why they're there is leaked subtly and slowly. Sci-Fi but low key and above all a love story. Awesome, awesome book. Have the tissues handy and be prepared to be blown away.

A slow burn but a work of genius if you stick with it. The New York Mafia is an undercurrent throughout, menacing and dangerous as the sea in winter. Beautifully crafted, long but worth the time. Great winter read