For fans of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Andre Dubas's House of Sand and Fog. To be backed with a major consumer advertising campaign to reach the broad market who will love this book. An ideal book for book group, Gardens of Water is ripe with fascinating discussions and a new reading guide will be available online at the time of publication.

Turkey, 1999. A devastating earthquake brings Istanbul crumbling to the ground, ripping apart the fragile stability of Sinan's world. His family home becomes a makeshift tent in a camp run by Western missionaries whom he stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion.