Dark is the Morning

<p><b>'A wonderfully moody, moving novel' - Sarah Waters</b><br><br><b>'Lyrical, intense, and haunting' - Chloe Aridjis</b><br><br><b>'Beautiful and seething' - Claire-Louise Bennet</b><br><br><b>'Utterly unpredictable' - <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Gripping' - <i>Literary Review</i></b><br><br><i>Sometimes love isn’t where you belong</i><br><br>In a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness and stability he needs. They seem made for each other, and move to a remote house in the countryside - but there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino.<br><br>Descending into pathological jealousy and resentment towards a married man who had been Franca’s lover, Gino is unable to stop himself imagining the worst, and embarks on a violent path that has catastrophic consequences. <br><br>Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK’s most unpredictable and celebrated writers.</p>