Tigers in Red Weather--------pan macmillan
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers
at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s
Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the
world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for
Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is to be reunited with her
young husband Hughes, due to return from London and the war. Everything
is about to change.
Neither quite finds the life she had imagined,
and as the years pass, the trips to Tiger House take on a new
complexity. Then, on the brink of the 1960s, Nick’s daughter Daisy and
Helena’s son Ed make a sinister discovery. It plunges the island’s
bright heat into private shadow and sends a depth-charge to the heart of
the family.
Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel.
Magnificently told from five perspectives, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut: a simmering novel of passion, betrayal and secret violence beneath a polished and fragile facade.