<p><b><u>From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - </u></b><b><u>winner of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-Turner</u></b><br><br><u><i>____________________</i></u><br><b>In 1976 four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them...</b><br><br>And repercussions are just what Guy doesn''t need: his wife, Jane, is moving swiftly from slightly eccentric to downright peculiar, their three-year-old daughter seems set on destroying Jane''s sanity, and now even God''s gone quiet on him. <br><br>As for Nina, she''s having enough trouble with her son, James. He''s got exams looming, a new girlfriend with pneumatic breasts and now, it seems, he''s on drugs. Nina certainly won''t welcome any ghosts from the past.<br><br>Life isn''t going smoothly for anyone. But when Hugo, long-forgotten agent of misfortune, threatens to pay them all a visit, disaster seems unavoidable.<br><u><i>____________________</i></u><br><b>Praise