Two women.A wild Island.A truth buried deep in the past.-Like a surreal cabinet of curiosities - haunting, eerie, evocative- Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding-This moving tale is set in a mesmerising world-Heat-Polly Crosby whips up a lush, mythical world in this dream-like novel . . . A book worm-s treat!-Eve Chase, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Glass HouseTartelin Brown is all alone in the world. So when she sees an advert for a job on a remote island, she knows she has nothing to lose.Her employer, Marianne Stourbridge, is a woman as strange and mysterious as the place she inhabits.Tasked with hunting butterflies for Marianne-s research, Tartelin quickly uncovers evidence of something even more intriguing - for Marianne has a remarkable past.Determined to piece together the story, Tartelin must first confront her own. But what she discovers on the island is more terrible and heart-breaking than she could ever have imagined.Atmospheric and deepl
