<b>''An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment ... It continues to haunt me'' NATASHA BROWN, <i>I PAPER</i> BOOKS OF THE YEAR</b><b>''I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book'' DAISY JOHNSON</b><b>''A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered, impossible to forget'' MEGAN HUNTER</b><b>''Stunning ... beautifully written and deeply unsettling''<i> BOOKSELLER</i>, EDITOR''S CHOICE</b><b>CHOSEN AS A 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY <i>OBSERVER</i>,<i> INDEPENDENT</i>, <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i>, <i>EVENING STANDARD</i>, <i>GRAZIA</i>, <i>STYLIST</i>, <i>ELLE</i><i>THE NATIONAL</i>, <i>FIVE BOOKS</i> AND <i>BURO</i></b>A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya¿s unease. As a child, she escaped from S