Abbey Lay

An emotionally charged novel of female friendship, for readers of Elena Ferrante and Diana Reid. 'When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie next to me and pour herself out into the darkness, and others where it seemed she was hardly there at all.' Millie is in her final...

An intoxicating novel of a young woman in Sicily reckoning with the cost of desire 'There are many ways to know someone. You will see. I will show you.' Grace, a young linguist, plans a trip to Sicily to research Italian dialects. Travelling alone, she hopes for six weeks of total immersion in the language, food and social dynamics of...