Rebecca Wait grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and read English at Oxford University. She is the author of prize-winning short stories and plays, as well as critically acclaimed novels The View on the Way Down (2013) and The Followers (2017). She writes and teaches in London.
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“This is a beautifully realised novel, touching on the fallibility of memory and the unknowability of families, and gripping in its intensity. Outstanding.”— Daily Mail, Jan 11 2020![]()
“...a thoughtful and wrenching portrait of a small Scottish town wracked by guilt over an incident of domestic violence.”— Publishers Weekly, Jan 1 2020![]()
“Memory, masculinity, and survivor’s guilt are picked apart as the novel treads its path, dodging sensationalism and easy resolutions while evoking haunted, inarticulate people in a relentless landscape. A piercing, vivid, and humane story depicting the long aftermath of...— Kirkus Reviews, Dec 9 2019
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