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Janice is a widow in her 70s. This Christmas, with family elsewhere, she is off to spend Christmas at a friend's hotel in the West of Ireland. She finds herself the only guest, until a man appears, having arrived by boat. They share dinner on Christmas Eve. When she asks him to tell his story he says 'I'd have to kill you if I told you', and Janice, having heard men say things like this before, calls his bluff: they agree to tell each other the worst thing they've ever done.
He, it turns out, committed a huge financial crime at Christmas twenty-five years ago and has been on the run ever since but has come back to see his mother, who lives locally and has been given a terminal diagnosis.
And Janice has a story of her own to tell. But can we trust her? And should this man be so careless with his own story, even if it is Christmas Eve . . . Sarah Moss has written several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize, and Ripeness. She has also written a memoir, My Good Bright Wolf - winner of Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Saltires - and Names for the Sea, which is an account of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the English Midlands, she now lives in Dublin. A twisty, surprising and moving tale of two unlikely guests brought together on a fateful Christmas Eve, from Sunday Times bestselling Sarah Moss
He, it turns out, committed a huge financial crime at Christmas twenty-five years ago and has been on the run ever since but has come back to see his mother, who lives locally and has been given a terminal diagnosis.
And Janice has a story of her own to tell. But can we trust her? And should this man be so careless with his own story, even if it is Christmas Eve . . . Sarah Moss has written several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize, and Ripeness. She has also written a memoir, My Good Bright Wolf - winner of Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Saltires - and Names for the Sea, which is an account of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the English Midlands, she now lives in Dublin. A twisty, surprising and moving tale of two unlikely guests brought together on a fateful Christmas Eve, from Sunday Times bestselling Sarah Moss