<p><b>A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of </b><b><i>The Gathering.</i></b><br><br> If it hadn''t been for the child then none of this might have happened.<br><br> She saw me kissing her father.<br><br> She saw her father kissing me.<br><br> The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.<br><br><b>**Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction**</b><br><b><br>''Absolute genius'' BBC Radio 4</b></p>