An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish surroundings, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Various other Stories and Weathering.

At the very edge of Britain, where the Atlantic Ocean fits the land and visitors flock along with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not proven on postcards.

It is a place where conversation cables buzz deep under the sand; where satellite meals turn like plants on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless children haunt empty vacation homes, a surfer challenges with the undertow of family life, a woman watches her years as a child spin from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, inside a web of ocean caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something dropped.

These astonishing, beguiling stories of ghosts and shifting sands, of static caravans and shipwrecked cargo, explore notions of scenery and belonging, permanence and impermanence, and just how places can take hold and never quite release.