**'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON** **'A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered, impossible to forget' MEGAN HUNTER** **'Stunning ... beautifully written and deeply unsettling' _BOOKSELLER_ , EDITOR'S CHOICE ** **CHOSEN AS A 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY _OBSERVER_ , _INDEPENDENT_ , _FINANCIAL TIMES_ , _EVENING STANDARD_ , _GRAZIA_ , _STYLIST_ , _ELLE_ _THE NATIONAL_ , _FIVE BOOKS_ AND _BURO_** A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya's unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return, she …
