Rebecca Wait

A Times Best Fiction Book of the YearA Guardian Best Fiction Book of the YearA BBC Culture Book of the Year For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older …

'A great surging shout of a novel' Guardian 'Profoundly unsettling, brilliantly executed . . . remarkable' - Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of Station Eleven Judith has been visiting her mother, Stephanie, in prison once a month for the last eight years. But neither of them can bring themselves to talk …