There is Hester, their matriarchal, controlling host Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder and delusions the mercurial Eve Elijah - a faithless former preacher haunted by the Bible and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. As nights and days pass John finds himself drawn into a baffling menagerie. They all know him by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along. Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.
He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. From the #1 bestselling, prize-winning author of The Essex Serpent Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014 One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind.
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