'Written in Johnston's usual haunting prose... no word is unnecessary' Maeve Binchy, Sunday Times

On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their testy encounter develops a remarkable friendship which will enable each to face afresh their very different, damaged pasts, and to look, however tentatively, towards the future.

"She writes with considerable acuity and understanding" - Sunday Times