The bestselling novel behind the major new BBC drama starring George Mackay (Pride), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Greg Wise (Cranford) and Hattie Morahan (Sense and Sensibility)

Sussex, 1957. Lewis is nineteen, straight out of jail, and stands alone at a railway station.

Hes returned to the village where he grew up: the village where, a decade earlier, tragedy tore his family apart, leaving him to a troubled adolescence with a father he barely knew.

Now, the only person who understands him is Kit Carmichael, daughter of a bullying local businessman. Through the pain and isolation of their shared childhood comes love and loyalty and soon they realise that to forge their own futures, they must first confront the darkest secrets of their past.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL PRIZE