Putney Av Ms Sofka Zinovieff

<p><b>A</b><b> bold, thought-provoking novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure, about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the secrets we bury; ''the best novel of 2018, by far'' (Cressida Connolly, <i>Spectator</i>)</b><br><b><br>A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 - CHOSEN BY THE <i>OBSERVER</i>, <i>NEW STATESMAN </i>AND<i> SPECTATOR</i></b><br><br>1970s London. Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, has gone to visit Edmund Greenslay in his riverside home. At the heart of the house’s wild bliss he finds Edmund’s nine-year-old daughter Daphne, flitting, sprite-like, through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden. From the moment their lives collide Ralph is consumed by an obsession to make Daphne his. <br><br>Decades later, Daphne watches her own daughter come of age and is confronted with the truth of her own childhood – and a devastating act of violence that has lain hidden for decades.</p>