Will must run, or die. He's seen a murder, and the gang on his estate are after him.
Hurt, hungry and afraid, he comes to an abandoned house in a different part of the city. Behind its high fences is a place of safety. Here, he can hide like a wounded beast. He can find food, and healing - and learn how to do more than survive.
But when Will meets Padma, he must choose between his good side and his bad one. For the gang he left behind is still there. How can he live without becoming a killer? How can he love without being a thief?
Exciting, fast-paced and different, this is a story that keeps you reading until the last line.
Amanda Craig was born in 1959, and brought up in Italy and Britain. After reading English Literature at Clare College Cambridge, she worked in advertising and journalism before becoming a full-time novelist. She is the author of seven novels, Foreign Bodies (1990), A Private Place (1991) A Vicious Circle (1996), In a Dark Wood (2000) Love In Idleness (2003), Hearts And Minds (2009) and The Lie of the Land (2017). Often compared to Dickens, Trollope and Jane Austen, the Telegraph said "She has everything you look for in a major writer: wit, indignation, an ear for the telling phrase andan unflagging attention to all the individual choices by which we define ourselves." The Lie of the Land was chosen as a Book of the Year by siux national newspapers, was a YOU magazine Book Club choice and a Radio 4 Book At Bedtime. She is currently writing a new novel for Little, Brown to be published in 2020. She has two children, lives in London and contributes regularly to The Observer and The New Statesman.
