Set in Pennance in Cornwall, this book is a slow burner about family breakdown, loneliness, guilt, jealousy, pain, fear, love and penance. Sparked off by a tragic accident, a chance meeting between two women brings about a dangerous liaison and unleashes a terrible vengeance. Piquant, evocative and sensual in places, this mystery novel sometimes overindulges in adjectives which, for me, affected the pace.
