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Rachel Heath was born in Bristol in 1968. She lives with her husband, a screen writer, and their three children and one dog in Bath. This is her first novel.A dark, compelling debut ... Heath skilfully recreates the trajectory of Gibson's life, but it's Trelling's equally damaged character ... which provides the vital emotional charge
Daily Mail
Heath combines imaginative, fast paced story telling with an unerring sense of period, place and mood... an exceptionally well-written, suspenseful novel.
Guardian
Excellent on the atmosphere of post-war Britain and the lure of South Africa... compellingly told, reminiscent of early Doris Lessing ... the twists keep the reader glued to the novel.
Independent
...thrillingly macabre.
Daily Telegraph
Excellent ... There is a compulsion and persuasive assurance in the writing
Sunday Times
A strong, dark and original story, told by an engrossing new voice in English fiction
- Miranda Seymour,
An exceptionally well-written, suspenseful novel ... with an unerring sense of period, place and mood
Guardian
The strength of this book is its evocation of powerful sexuality and its capturing the flavour of South Africa 50 years ago.
MSLEXIA
Heath's reckless, innocent Laura, caught in the upheaval and cruelty of an unjust system that mingled bloodshed with the tennis club and the bitchy tea party, is unforgettable
MSLEXIA
Rachel Heath explores the dangers of intimacy, the secrets behind ordinary existences, the fruitlessness of the search for a home, and, ultimately, the grim inevitability of disaster. A promising debut from a startling new voice.
Waterstone's Books Quarterly
It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her the chance to alter the course of her destiny - and to embark on a new life in South Africa.
Many miles north, sixteen-year-old Gay Gibson is desperate to escape Birkenhead. When the girls' paths cross in Johannesburg, Laura is exposed to Gay's wild life of parties and inappropriate liaisons. Each in their own worlds, but thrown together, the girls find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences...
It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her the chance to alter the course of her destiny - and to embark on a new life in South Africa.