Lucas Danny Michael Rachel Martha and Jo met as undergraduates at Oxford University and have been a tightknit group of friends ever since.

The novel opens on New Years Eve as now in their latetwenties they arrive at Stoneborough Manor a stately pile that Lucas has inherited after the suicide of his artdealer uncle.

Best friends since university Lucas and Jo have lusted after each other for years and finally risk their friendship to begin a relationship but Lucas is haunted by the deaths of his parents and uncle and becomes obsessed by cinefilms of them at Stoneborough twenty years earlier.

Within the claustrophobic confines of the house over a hot decadent summer sexual tensions escalate shattering the groups friendship and changing all their lives irrevocably.

Product Details Paperback Book Author Lucie Whitehouse Genre Fiction Publisher Bloomsbury ISBN 9780747593973