An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious man to become Master of his college. But, walking by the river, Thomas sees a young girl standing on the bridge. It is an apocalyptic vision, one that alters Thomas's life irrevocably and tragically, but with the beauty and joy of a love never previously imagined.

'As light as a feather but as powerful as flight' Observer

An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

About the Author
SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

Reviews
Elegant and highly stylised...the prose has a lulling, rolling cadence * Guardian *
Subtle and profoundly beautiful * Scotsman *
Hill breaks all the rules of British irony and gets away with it, thanks in part to her obsessive imagination * Independent *
Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past * Sunday Times *
As light as a feather but as powerful as flight * Observer *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099284680
Author Susan Hill
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 202g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 17mm