In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Since walking out on her life at sixteen, Lamb has lived alone in the gaps between other people’s lives. Secretly inhabiting the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, she keeps herself to herself, her life a precarious balancing act – until she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run. Both strangers to the concept of truth, Doggo and Lamb are drawn together, glimpsing in one another the possibility of finding solace and maybe even love. But with secrets too dark to admit to even themselves, let alone someone else, first they must just learn to trust in each other.

Review: This is a very enjoyable, though often dark, novel which keeps you turning pages into the night. The story focuses around a young woman, known as Lamb, who lives pretty much on the margins of society, and her meeting and relationship with Doggo, a young man with something to hide. All of the main characters in this story have their secrets, and all of them are coping with horrific events, sometimes as a result of their own actions, in their past. This is a story about the terrible things ordinary people can do when circumstances get out of their control, about the lies people tell to themselves and others, and about how, in the end, we are all human, and we are all coping with our own histories in our own way. It is also great reading and will keep you thinking long after you have turned the last page.

The Author: Lesley Glaister is the prize-winning author of nine novels, all available in paperback from Bloomsbury. She lives in Sheffield.