With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room as well as the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking about Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

What becomes of a kid who grows up without love?

Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John within a crumbling mansion on the edge of the northern about The Site visitors seaside holiday resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion will her better to live by John’s guidelines, even if it means turning a blind attention to the noises she hears via behind the cellar door…and turning a blind eye to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. For years, she’s buried the symptoms of John’s damaging secret in to the deep recesses of her mind-until your day John is normally crippled by a coronary attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are suit to keep his secret.

Forced to go down to the cellar and encounter what her brother provides kept concealed, Marion discovers more on the subject of herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to comprehend: maybe John isn’t the only person with a dark side….