A haunting and magical tale that sees Annette return to the home she grew up in all those years ago. As she remembers the lodger who had magical powers, was he who he said he was and why did he despise his own gift? As her past finally catches up with her, the memory of her dead parents can finally be laid to rest.

Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, Fell and Ghosted: A Love Story. In 2011, she was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. She has also written a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.