Tony Peake Books

Tony Peake's first novel for 20 years is an exquisitely realised story of revisiting a seminal boyhood moment as it plays out - with unexpected and sinister consequences - against the backdrop of political upheaval in South Africa.

After years of eking out an existence in a succession of Cornish villages, Lucy and her painter husband are offered a house on a small island off the East Coast. There, Lucy, emotionally estranged from her husband, constructs an imaginary relationship with a sensual young man new to the island.