A quirky, warm novel of eccentric adventure from the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER - 'A huge treat' Daily Mail

'Patrick Gale is among the great, unsung English novelists. Think Austen, Hardy, Murdoch. Remarkable' Independent

Domina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her solution: to leave her beautiful home in Bristol and seek adventure in a squalid West London bedsit, where she will live under an assumed name with only her typewriter for companionship. Once installed, however, she can't resist meddling in the business of others, forgetting that blurring fact with fiction can be a dangerous game.

"Patrick Gale is among the great, unsung English novelists. Think Austen, Hardy, Murdoch. Remarkable" - Independent

"Gale is a master at getting under the skins of his characters and revealing the undercurrents that drive apparently ordinary lives" - Mail on Sunday

"Captivating. A novel that pleads to be read at a single sitting" - Publishers Weekly

"A quick-thinking book by an author who has something to say" - Guardian

"A huge treat" - Daily Mail