Blue Hour

She thinks of blue mountain her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.'

As the rest of the world lies sleeping Eleanor straps her infant daughter Amy into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a marriage in ruins since his return from Vietnam. Together she and Amy will journey to blue mountain a place of enchantment and refuge that lit up Eleanor's childhood.

As the car eats up the miles so Eleanor's mind dives back into her fractured relationship with her mother Kitty. Kitty who asked for so much from life from love from family. Kitty who had battled so hard to prise her husband George out of the grip of war. Kitty whose disapproving voice rings so loud in Eleanor's head.

Tense visceral glittering it is a masterful return to fiction from the author of the acclaimed See What I Have Done.