A literary psychological thriller about the 'perfect' marriage.

'Unnerving, clever' Red

'Eerily well-handled' Guardian

Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife.

But now Hector has come home with a secret. And Marta is beginning to imagine - or revisit - a terrifying truth . . .

'A highly competent, creepy little chiller, but beneath, like a silent, bolted and half-dark room, there's a much bigger, equally disconcerting story about the nature of feminine experience . . . shows insight and emotional power' Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

'Disturbing, intense . . . gripping' Psychologies

'Brilliantly convincing . . . darkly fascinating' Financial Times

'Absorbing, multi-layered, chilling . . . you'll want to finish it all in one go' Daily Mail

'The unnamed Scandinavian setting has all the familiar elements of contemporary northern lights noir, yet its claustrophobic, interior-driven narrative harks back to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's disturbing feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, or even Ibsen's A Doll's House? The novel is Chapman's debut, and is eerily well-handled... Chapman shows real empathy for loneliness and the cruelty of ageing? A plausible tale of trauma, a ruthless examination of the many layers of marriage, and a woman's opaque role with it.' Guardian