Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, Stef Penney's eagerly awaited second novel is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.

Stef Penney grew up in Edinburgh. She has degrees in Philosophy and Theology and Film and TV, and was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme and has since written and directed two short films. She is the author of The Tenderness of Wolves and The Invisible Ones.