'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it' CLARE CHAMBERS bestselling author of
Small Pleasures 'Beautiful strange and otherworldly' PAULA HAWKINS bestselling author of A
Slow Fire Burning 'Subtly powerful and utterly engrossing' CLAIRE FULLER bestselling author of
Unsettled Ground Burnt out and in need of retreat a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return
to the place she grew up taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark
plains of the Australian outback. She doesn't believe in God or know what prayer is and finds
herself living this strange reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts
this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague each day
signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal
remains of a sister who disappeared decades before presumed murdered. And finally a troubling
visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past . . .
