The Global Bestseller from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Author of Fever Dream.

A young mother steps into the water, determined to end her life. What will bring her back? For a single moment, a baby is left unattended in a room of everyday dangers. In a high-rise apartment block, in a city far from home, a ghost appears.

When a lonely woman acts on a kind impulse the consequences will be dark, bold and revelatory. 

'Mesmerizing . . . powerfully evocative and unsettling’ - Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times

‘These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside’ - Colum McCann

‘A master of the uncanny’ - The New Yorker

‘Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled’ - Anne Enright

‘A fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human’ - Isabel Allende

‘You will find yourself in the space on the other side of terror – a space of openness, fragility and strange reassurance’ - The Guardian