Ali Millar

A lyrical and powerful memoir of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, from an exciting new literary talent. 'A masterpiece' — Amy Liptrot 'Courageous stuff... intense, compelling, raw' — The Times It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking...

'Every bit as gripping as it is horrifying' — Ian Rankin 'So striking... like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream' — Lucy Caldwell 'A bleeding, sweating story' — Guardian 'A bracingly original tale of lust and malice' — Rob Doyle 'A work of exquisite strangeness, unsettling and arresting' — Wendy Erskine 'An almost impossibly elegant evocation of...

The between days were days of pure white heat. Summer is swelling around the village. Heat is surging, people are whispering about a great hungry wave, and in the garden, Anna is kicking her dying dog on the grass. But someone is watching her. The girl. Ava. Outside, the brutal summer blisters on. Inside, over the course of one claustrophobic...