**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award****Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022**''The master of northern noir'' SUNDAYTIMES ''An absolute triumph: complex, haunting and powerful, this is a blazing tale of complicity, shame, love and hope'' GUARDIAN''Powerful and so beautifully written'' HARRIET TYCE, Sunday Times-bestselling author of BLOOD ORANGE________________________________________________________________Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester-s underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby. Matriarch Nedra presides over the household, which bustles with activity as she prepares the welcome feast for her grandson Kelly-s return from prison. Her grieving daughter-in-law Carol is visited by both the welcome, intimate ghost of her m
