THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 2 SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK’The new Little Fires Everywhere . . . The perfect summer read’ STYLIST’Stunning! An absolutely brilliant, gorgeously-written novel. A must-read for our time’ LISA TADDEO, author of Three Women’Immersive and deeply moving’ ANNA HOPE, author of Expectation ‘I absolutely adored it’ LIANE MORIARTY, bestselling author of Big Little Lies_____________ Two ordinary families. One life-changing day . . . When the Gleesons and the Stanhopes become neighbours, lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend. But Anne Stanhope – cold, elegant, unstable – wants to be left alone. It’s left to their children – Lena’s youngest, Kate, and Anne’s only child, Peter – to find their way to one another. To form a friendship whose resilience and love will be almost broken by the fault line dividing both families, and a tragedy that will engulf them all. A tragedy whose true origins only become clear many years later