BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN''S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE
''The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier''s most unsettling short fiction'' FINANCIAL TIMES
''Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully realised'' DAILY MAIL
''It''s a rare writer who can create a world as convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page novel; Shipstead''s fluency in both forms is testament to the skill she modestly casts as a work in progress'' Stephanie Merritt, GUARDIAN
''Maggie Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a poet''s attention to detail'' THETIMES
A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring and the damaged. Diving into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and il