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When Shona’s teenage daughter goes missing, she’s certain her ex-husband is the culprit. Her mother, Greta, is no help as she’s too obsessed with being chased by the devil. Her uncle, Jimmy, is fresh out of prison and has never been entirely straight with her. Then there’s the shaman living in her shed. All Shona wants is a simple life with her young son, and to get free of Maynard, the ex who’s still living in the house. But nothing is ever straightforward and Shona soon discovers that the secrets she buried are as dangerous as the family curse that haunts her mother.

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'An intriguing and compelling story, told with the most sensitive of brush strokes, about how family myths and misfortunes are passed down the generations through shifting layers of truth. '-Liz Trenow, author of New York Times bestseller The Forgotten Seamstress

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Sarah Armstrong is the author of four novels, most recently The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt and The Starlings of Bucharest. She is also the author of A Summer of Spying, a short non fiction work about her experience of jury service during the Covid-19 pandemic, authority, truth, and the surveillance we are all exposed to. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing with the Open University. Sarah lives in Colchester with her husband and four children.

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