A spellbinding slice of Cornish Gothic – a Daphne du Maurier for the 21st century! Piers Torday

Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mental health.

Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to find a solution and call a truce.