Tom Vowler Boeken

The collection explores the theme of loss through a variety of characters facing haunting consequences from their pasts. Each story presents unique situations, from a writer's obsessive research to a couple grappling with grief, and a man on a train seeking vengeance. Other narratives include a witch's frustration with her husband and gamblers believing they can outsmart fate. Despite the unsettling scenarios, readers find themselves drawn to the characters, whose bizarre experiences linger in the mind long after the last page is turned.

Every Seventh Wave has strong echoes of Fiona Mozley's Elmet and Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing. Strongly lyrical, the novel also serves as a literary thriller, with a suspenseful pace that builds to its redemptive finale.

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE One family, one town, devastated by one tragic event. Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of? When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched. Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?