''Haunting and beguiling, this fever dream of a novel draws you in and colours your mind all shades of doubt and suspicion'' STACEY HALLS
''Melancholy and bittersweet'' OTEGHA UWAGBA
''A novel of rare grace and skill, exquisitely wrought and simmering with feral violence'' ROWE IRVIN
The season of strangeness has begun . . .
Many stories are told about the five Mansfield sisters. They are haughty, thinking themselves better than their neighbours in the picturesque village of Little Nettlebed. They have taken the death of their grandmother hard. They are liars, troublemakers, untamed and dangerous... Accounts of their behaviour differ, but the villagers all agree that the girls are odd.
One long summer, a heatwave descends. Bloated sea creatures wash up along the parched riverbed, animals grow frenzied, ravens gather on the roofs of those about to die. As the stifling heat grips the village, so does a strange rumou
