The critically acclaimed psychological chiller from a powerful new voice in Irish literary fiction.<br><i><b><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2017 <br></b></i><br><b>''As fine as it is frightening'' JOHN BANVILLE </b><br><br><b>''This one will stay with you like your shadow'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''Extraordinary . . . pitch-perfect'' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying'' DONAL RYAN, author of<i> The Spinning Heart</i></b><br><br><b>''Like many great works, it could so easily have all gone wrong if it hadn’t been done exactly right'' <i>Sunday Independent </i></b><br><br><br>It is the hottest August in living memory.<br><br> A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again.<br><br> She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing;