Above the water, a welcoming community of men offer refuge from an increasingly rocky home life. Fourteen years later, a new revelation sees Matty set off alone in a campervan, driving westwards through Ireland, swimming its wild loughs and following the scant clues left behind about Joe.
"Polly Vaughan is a troubled, disaffected English student trying to salvage her degree and escape the guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north for an open-ended break with her mother. As soon as she arrives, Polly goes looking for drink, drugs and sex - finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations - floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods - she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner? And what is his sinister secret?" --Publisher description
The beautifully observed human dynamics of Sarah Moss meets the emo-apocalypse of The Last of Us, a gripping, moving novel about siblings, sex and the end of the world.