An astonishing debut novel--dark and shocking--that tells the story of a fatal, erotic obsession. Hart tells the story of a wealthly, successful man who falls in love with his son's fiance, a woman who wields a dangerous power over hi...

It opens in a small Irish town in the 1960s with the accidental death of a teenage boy who commits one final, heartrending act of love.Then: three brilliantly realized voices—the boy's mother, his older sister, a German expat neighb...