Author: Winton, Tim
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 4 September 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Picador Collection' series.
Paperback | 480 pages
198 x 131 | 328g
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize‘Compelling’ – The Independent‘Beautiful’ – The Sunday TelegraphGeorgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination.
Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.