From the bestselling author of SMALL PLEASURES, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom. Coming August 2024 - AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW!
''A magnificent novel. I loved it to its bones''
EMMA STONEX
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RUTH HOGAN
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park.Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor.
One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen''s home. A thirty-seven-ye
