After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this "sensitive, unsettling tale" by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent).

Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills . . .

It's 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor's wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them.

As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster.

Will either of them ever recover from the lingering horrors of war? And can both of them walk away from their affair unscathed?

"One of the most compelling novels I have read all year." —Liz Jensen, author of The Uninvited

Praise for Lesley Glaister

"[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying." —The Times Literary Supplement

"One of Britain's finest novelists." —The Sunday Telegraph