**A raw and engrossing portrait of familial and marital dysfunction by
"one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer).
**
Neve is a writer in her mid-thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For
now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have
left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage,
she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and
her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of
lonely flights from place to place.
Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins
a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both
husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a
story of love?